Ragna (Ragnheiður) Sigurðardóttir (born in Reykjavík on 10 August 1962) is an Icelandic writer, translator and artist.
[2] In 1987 she debuted with a collection of her short stories and poems titled Stefnumót ("Date"), followed in by Fallegri en flugeldar ("More beautiful than fireworks", 1989), 27 herbergi ("27 rooms", 1991).
Her debut novel Borg ("City", 1993), was nominated for the Icelandic Literature Prize, followed by Skot ("Shot", 1997), Strengir ("Strings", 2000), Hið fullkomna landslag ("The Perfect Landscape", 2009; translated into English by Sarah Bowen and published by Amazon Publishing in 2012), Bónusstelpan ("The Cashier", 2011), Vinkonur ("Girlfriends", 2016) and Þetta rauða, það er ástin (2022).
In 2019, she published a collection of short stories, Vetrargulrætur ("Winter Roots"), which received unanimous praise from critics.
[7] Ragna has worked as an art critic and as a literary translator from several languages (including Dutch, English and Danish) into Icelandic.