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Yrsa Sigurdardottir

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in Reykjavík, Iceland

August 24, 1963

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Mystery & Thrillers, Children's Books

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Yrsa Sigurðardóttir is an Icelandic writer, of both crime-novels and children's fiction. She has been writing since 1998.
Her début crime-novel "Last Rituals" published in the US in 2007, and the UK in January 2008 was translated into English by Bernard Scudder, and is book 1 of the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series.

Yrsa Sigurðardóttir graduated from high-school in 1983, finished a B.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of Iceland in 1988 and M.Sc in the same field from Concordia University in Montreal in 1997.

Yrsa now works as a civil engineer for the company Fjarhitun, as well as being a writer.

In 2000 the Icelandic department of IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) awarded Yrsa for her book Við viljum jólin í júlí (We ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 91,993 ratings · 9,390 reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors

	I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Philip Roughton (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 11,753 ratings — published 2010 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	DNA (Children's House, #1) by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Yrsa Sigurðardóttir 3.96 avg rating — 10,968 ratings — published 2014 — 87 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Rituals (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #1) by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Yrsa Sigurdardóttir 3.58 avg rating — 11,192 ratings — published 2005 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Soul to Take (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #2) by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Bernard Scudder (Translator), Anna Yates (Translator) 3.75 avg rating — 7,787 ratings — published 2006 — 81 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sogið (Children's House, #2) 3.96 avg rating — 6,983 ratings — published 2015 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Absolution (Children's House, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 5,819 ratings — published 2016 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ashes to Dust (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #3) by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Philip Roughton (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 5,230 ratings — published 2007 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silence of the Sea (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #6) 3.72 avg rating — 4,602 ratings — published 2011 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Day is Dark (Þóra Guðmundsdóttir, #4) by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Philip Roughton (Translator) 3.69 avg rating — 4,532 ratings — published 2008 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gallows Rock (Children's House, #4) 3.88 avg rating — 3,934 ratings — published 2017 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Þóra Guðmundsdóttir (6 books)
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Karólína, Týr & Iðunn (2 books)
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“...the only thing that could justify your continuing existence on the planet would be if you started breathing carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.”
― Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

tags: exasperation, fun, humor, insults, respectful-anger

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“Mother Nature had made an appalling error of judgement.”
― Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Last Rituals

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“In fact, they’re trained in risk assessment”
― Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, The Silence of the Sea

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