Oddný Eir Aevarsdóttir

The fifth writer in residence was the Icelandic writer Oddný Eir Aevarsdóttir

Oddný Eir Aevarsdóttir was born in Reykjavík in 1972. She studied philosophy at the University of Iceland, graduating with a Master's Degree in political philosophy, then completed a doctoral minor degree at Sorbonne University in Paris. She has in recent years worked on her thesis at E.h.e.s.s.-University, carrying out research in the Icelandic museum field as well as working in the arts, lecturing, curating and writing on numerous artists, running a bookwork-edition and a visual arts space in New York and Reykjavík with her brother, archaeologist Uggi Aevarsson. Both Oddńy Eir and Uggi worked on the Artangel/Roni Horn project Weather Reports You.

Oddný Eir has worked in the political field, collaborating with musician Björk on the project Náttúra; about the protection of Icelandic nature and sustainable development. Oddný Eir’s first novel was published in 2004, an autobiographical work named Opening the Hunchback; a piece of puppet theatre. In her second novel, published in 2009, Home to My Heart: a perfume report on a season at the sanatorium, Oddńy Eir extends even further the boundaries between scholarship, fiction, journal-writing and reality.