Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir
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Icelandic
Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir is widely regarded as one of Iceland’s most innovative contemporary poets and performers. In 2021 she was nominated for the Bernard Heidsieck Literary Prize by the Centre Pompidou for her multidisciplinary poetry practice, which spans text, music, performance, visual art, and film. Ásta has received the prestigious Ljóðstafur Jóns úr Vör poetry prize (2017) and her debut collection, Eilífðarnón (2019), has been translated into Swedish and German.