(1918-1994) was born in Haelavik on Iceland’s northernmost peninsula, Hornstrandir, but spent most of her life as a housewife  on a farm in Myvatnssveit named Gardur. She was one of Iceland’s leading authors, producing novels, short stories, and books of poetry. Three of her novels were nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize.

“Jakobina was of course an absolutely incomparable writer; the fact that she wasn’t granted her rightful place as one of Iceland’s most important 20th century writers, that’s very simply because she was a woman on a farm up north…she wasn’t posh enough for the literary pack in Reykjavik.”
KILJAN, NATIONAL TV