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Sigurðardóttir, Yrsa
The Icelandic author and civil engineer Yrsa Sigurðardóttir grew up in Reykjavik. She now lives in the suburb of Seltjarnarnes. She has two children born in the eighties and nineties with her husband, whom she has known since high school. After graduating from the University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands) in 1988, Sigurðardóttir has worked as a civil engineer, apart from a period in the 1980s when s...
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Bodelsen, Anders
Anders Bodelsen was a Danish author, journalist and critic born in the Copenhagen district of Frederiksberg. He then lived in Klampenborg with his wife, Eva, who is a librarian. They were married in 1975 and got two daughters together. Anders Bodelsen’s father, C.A. Bodelsen, was a professor of English literature and his mother, Merete Bodelsen, a highly regarded art historian. Bodelsen g...