Polish writer Maó Alheimsdóttir received the Fjöruverðulain this spring for her poetry book Hvalbak. She writes in Icelandic and has published two poetry books and one novel, and is the first author of foreign origin to write and publish a novel in Icelandic. Maó works, among other things, as a mountain guide and her poetry shows signs of her love of nature. She lives in Vesturbær in Reykjavík with her daughter Lára and her cat Kókos. Lóa Björk …
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Polish writer Maó Alheimsdóttir received the Fjöruverðulain this spring for her poetry book Hvalbak. She writes in Icelandic and has published two poetry books and one novel, and is the first author of foreign origin to write and publish a novel in Icelandic. Maó works, among other things, as a mountain guide and her poetry shows signs of her love of nature. She lives in Vesturbær in Reykjavík with her daughter Lára and her cat Kókos. Lóa Björk …