er maður sjálfur (The Strangest Of All Is One Self) (2002) Plays The People In The Basement (2010) Adaptations The People In The Basement, Deposit, and Grand Mal are being adapted for the silver screen. Quake, the adaptation of Grand Mal, was well-received when it premiered in Iceland and the United States in 2022. The film rights were sold to Juno Films and Njuta Films, who planned to release the film theatrically in late 2022. The film was written and directed by Tinna Hrafnsdóttir. Personal Life Auður experienced seizures as a child, which later influenced her epileptic protagonist in Stóri skjálfti. She also had a dog in her childhood. She lived in England for a time as a child. She has lived in four countries: Barcelona, Spain, Copenhagen, Denmark, Berlin, Germany and England. She worked in a fish factory in Flateyri in 1995, which would later inform her novel Ósjálfrátt. Auður divides her time between Berlin and Reykjavik with her family. Awards and nominations 2016 - The Icelandic Radio (RUV) Award 2015 - Icelandic book sellers prize: Grand Mal 2015 - Icelandic Literary Prize (Nomination): Grand Mal 2014 - Nordic Council Literature Prize (Nomination): Secretaries to the Spirits 2012 - DV Newspaper's Cultural Award (Nomination): Secretaries to the Spirits 2012 - The Women's Literary Award: Secretaries to the Spirits 2011 - Icelandic Theatre Awards, Griman: The People in the Basement (shared with Olafur Egilsson) 2006 - Icelandic Literary Prize (Nomination): Deposit 2006 - Nordic Council Literature Prize (Nomination): The People in the Basement 2004 - Icelandic Literary Prize: The People in the Basement 2002 - Icelandic book sellers prize: The strangest of all is you 2002 - Upplýsing Prize (Librarians): The strangest of all is you 2002 - Icelandic Literary Prize (Nomination): The strangest of all is you 1998 - Icelandic Literary Prize (Nomination): Bliss See also List of Icelandic writers Icelandic literature References External links Official site Iceland literature site I – or Mother. Mother-Daughter Conflicts in the Works of Auður Jónsdóttir, by Dagný Kristjánsdóttir, 28. November 2014, at nordicwomensliterature.net Quake: A Novel at Consortium Book Sales & Distribution Tinna Hrafnsdóttir's Quake in post-production, by Davide Abbatescianni, 01/07/2020, at cineuropa.org Jonsdottir, Audur Icelandic women novelists Jonsdottir, Audur Icelandic journalists Icelandic dramatists and playwrights Icelandic women journalists Women dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Icelandic women writers 21st-century Icelandic novelists 21st-century dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Icelandic women writers 20th-century Icelandic novelists People