Sigurðardóttir, Ásta Fanney

Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, born in 1987 in Reykjavík, Iceland, is a practising visual artist as well as a composer, musician and singer. She is widely considered one of her country‘s most innovative poetry performers. Her first collection of poetry, „Eilífðarnón“ (Island Verlag 2019), was also published in English as „Forevernoon“ (Partus Press (UK) 2022, translated by Vala Thorodds). Ásta was a founding member of the art gallery Kunstchlager. In 2017 she was the recipient of the prestigious annual Ljóðstafur Jóns úr Vör poetry prize for a single unpublished poem. She has taken part in a variety of performances blending together music, visual art and poetry, and is a member of the electro-pop trio aiYa. Her latest book is called „Gluggi – draumskrá“ (2021, Eng.: Window – Dream Register) and contains a list of dreams.