Kristín Eiríksdóttir is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, poet, and playwright from Reykjavík, Iceland. Kristín has published eight books and had three plays staged. Her short fiction appeared in Best European Fiction 2011. Her novel Elín, “Ýmislegt”, published in English as “A Fist or a Heart”, won the 2017 Icelandic Literary Prize as well as the 2018 Icelandic Women’s Literature Prize, and has been nominated for the 2019 Nordic Council Literature Prize. It is her first novel to be translated into English. Kristín will be reading at our pub night.