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Ingibjörg Haraldsdóttir

Icelandic poet and translatorThis is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Ingibjörg.

Ingibjörg Haraldsdóttir (21 October 1942 – 7 November 2016) was an Icelandic poet and translator. She lived in Cuba from 1970 to 1975 and also lived in the U.S.S.R. for a time. She has had six books of poetry published. In translations she is most known for her work translating Russian and Spanish works. She was born in Reykjavík. In 2002, she was awarded the Icelandic Literary Prize.

Her best known poem is Kona ('woman'), from 1983:

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    • Bokmenntir site on her