Guðrún Lárusdóttir

Guðrún Lárusdóttir (8 January 1880 – 20 August 1938) was an Icelandic politician, writer and translator.

She most notably served two terms as a member of the Althing, the national parliament of Iceland.

[1] Guðrún was born in Valþjófsstað, Fljótsdalur, the daughter of Lárus Halldórsson (1851–1908), a parliamentarian and priest, and his wife Kirstín Katrín Pétursdóttir Guðjohnsen (1850–1940).

She published her first novel, a three-part series titled Ljós og skuggar ("Lights and Shadows"), between 1903 and 1905.

She was accompanied by her husband and two of their daughters, as well as a driver, when the vehicle they were travelling in plummeted into the Tungufljót river.