Background
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir was born in Reykyavik in 1958.
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She studied the history of art at Sorbonne, Paris.
Career
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir works as an assistant professor of Art history at the University of Iceland. Foreign a time, she was the director of the university"s Art Museum. Her first novel Upphækkuð jörð (Raised Earth) was published in 1998.
lieutenant set the stage for her future works in its fine dissection of the smaller things in life.
Her book Rigning í nóvember (Butterflies in November) was lauded as a "moving, layered and optimistic piece of writing". In 2009, she published Afleggjarinn (The Greenhouse) to mixed reviews.
lieutenant was described as meticulous and finely crafted, yet lacking a tension both in its language and friction in its emotion. lieutenant was also described as a sweetly comic and wry observation of sex, manhood, death and parenthood.
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