(b.1987) is an award-winning illustrator, writer and graphic designer. She has published books both in Iceland and Germany, where she has received the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, the German-French Youth literature prize and the Jahres-Luchs prize, besides being nominated for the German Academy of Children’s and Youth Literature Illustration prize Serafina, the ALMA prize (Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award) and the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize.

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

2023 – Winner of the Nordic Council Children and Young People‘s Literature Prize for Volcano

2022 – Nomination for the Reykjavík Childrens Literature Prize in the category of illustration for Koma jól?

2021 – Morgunbladid Daily’s Children’s Book of the Year 2021, for The Queen Who Could Do Everything Except … together with author Gunnar Helgason

2020 – The Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, Young Adult category for Wie der Wahnsinn mir die Welt erklärte together with author Dita Zipfel

2020 – Shortlisted for the Most Beautiful Books of the Year in Germany for Wie der Wahnsinn mir die Welt erklärte

2020 – The Reykjavík Childrens Literature Prize in the category of illustration for Vigdís, bókin um fyrsta konuforsetann

2020 – Winner of the Most Beautiful Books of the Year in Germany for Die Reise zum Mittelpunkt des Waldes

2019 – The Icelandic Booksellers‘ Prize, for the best children’s book of the year, for Vigdís, bókin um fyrsta konuforsetann

2019 – The Reykjavík Childrens Literature Prize in the category of  illustration for Sagan um Skarphéðin Dungal

2018 – Nomination for the Icelandic Literature Prize for Sagan um Skarphéðin Dungal

2018 – FÍT (the Association of Icelandic Graphic Designers) Gold awards for illustrations in Fuglar

2018 – The Reykjavík Childrens Literature Prize in the category of illustration for Fuglar

2017 – Nomination for the Icelandic Literary Prize for Fuglar

2017 – FÍT (the Assoiation of Icelandic Graphic Designers) Grand Prize and gold awards for work for DesignMarch 2016

2015 – The Jahres-Luchs prize 2014 awarded by Die Zeit and Radio Bremen, together with Finn-Ole Heinrich

2015 – FÍT (the Association of Icelandic Graphic Designers) gold awards for illustration

2014 – Nominated for the German Academy of Children’s and Youth Literature Illustration prize Serafina 2014

2014 – The German-French Youth literature prize 2013 with author Finn-Ole Heinrich

2014 – FÍT (the Association of Icelandic Graphic Designers) illustration gold awards

2013 – Nominated for the Alma Prize (Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award)

2013 – Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2013, Childrens book category together with author Finn-Ole Heinrich