“One could listen to her endlessly.”

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about Steinunn Sigurdardottir’s reading at the International Literature Festival Berlin.

“Und wie es zu hören war, als die Dichterin in ihrem perfekten Deutsch mit ihrem charmanten isländischen Akzent einzelne Passagen las – und es wurde überhaupt ein intensiver, ein schlicht schöner Abend.”

Die Welt, Harbour Front Festival Hamburg.

Bestseller.  Iceland’s top-seller, next to two crime novels.

Icelandic Bookseller's Prize.  

Fjöruverðlaun, Women's Literature Prize.

“A true story that reads like a novel.”  

Rúnar Helgi Vignisson, professor of literature at the University of Iceland.

"Ein eminent politisches Buch"

Professor Gert Kreutzer

“A masterpice.  Ode to Icelandic nature and the work of Icelandic farmers.”   Farmers’ Gazette

“The language of Steinunn and Heida is grand.  Steinunn has been awarded literary prizes for her writing style.  She abstains from decorative wording and lets Heida speak … the vocabulary of this loud mouthed lass is rich and her agricultural metaphors too.”

Stefan Hafstein, Kjarninn.is.

Heida's Traum. Hanser Verlag, July, 2018. Premierenlesung Literaturhaus Hamburg August 29.  Moderation Nikola Haaks (Brigitte)