Vilborg Davíðsdóttir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Vilborg Davíðsdóttir

Icelandic writer

Date of Birth: 03-Sep-1965

Place of Birth: Thingeyri, Westfjords, Iceland

Profession: writer, journalist

Nationality: Iceland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Vilborg Davíðsdóttir (born 3 September 1965 in Þingeyri) is an Icelandic writer and journalist.
She lives in Reykjavík. Vilborg has a diploma in journalism, and a BA in English and Ethnology, writing her MA thesis in Ethnology about oral tradition and storytelling.
Her novels The Well of Fates (1993) and The Witches' Judgement (1994) concern a slave in the Viking era and are influenced by the Icelandic sagas to an extent.
She has also written a trilogy, historical fiction about Auður Djúpúðga (Aud the Deep-Minded), Icelands most famous female settlers. Vilborg's book Ástin, drekinn og dauðinn (On Love, Dragons and Dying) (2015) is her most personal story yet.
There she writes the story of her husband's journey with terminal brain cancer, and her first year as a widow, during which both her mother-in-law and her father died as well. Some of her books have been translated and published in The United States, Egypt, Germany and Faroe Islands.