Margrét Tryggvadóttir

Margrét Tryggvadóttir (born 20 March 1972 in Kópavogur) was a member of parliament of the Althing, the Icelandic parliament from 2009-2013 for The Movement and the Citizens' Movement. She was Chair of the Movement in 2009–10.

She is also noted as a writer.

Biography[]

Margrét was born to Tryggvi Páll Friðriksson (b. March 13, 1945), a manager and art dealer, ong Elínbjört Jónsdóttir (b. January 3, 1947), a textiles teacher and art-dealer; her partner is Jóhann Ágúst Hansen (b. 10. April 1969), a scholar of business studies and also an art dealer (son of Hans Jakob Hansen and Elínbjörg Kristjánsdóttir). Her sons are Hans Alexander (b. 1993) and Elmar Tryggvi (b. 1997).^[1]

She graduated in 1992 from the Commercial College of Iceland and took a BA degree in General Literature at the University of Iceland in 1997.^[2]

Margrét worked in business and gallery management 1992–2008 and was a literary critic for the newspaper DV 1996–1999. She has been a freelance consultant on children's books and children's culture since 1997. She was a part-time lecturer at the Námsflokkar Reykjavíkur, the Iceland University of Education and elsewhere 1997–2000. She was editor of the journals Mál og menning then the press 2000–2003. She was a freelance photo editor, translator and copywriter 2003–2009 and a children's author.^[3]

Following the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests, Margrét became an Alþingismaður for the Suðurkjördæmi constituency 2009–2013 (Borgarahreyfingin, Hreyfingin).^[4]

She chaired The Movement 2009–2010 and chaired the parliamentary group of The Movement 2010–2011 and 2012–2013.^[5]

Publications[]

In 2006, Margrét won the Icelandic Children's Book Prize for her Sagan af undurfögru prinsessunni og hugrakka prinsinum hennar (co-written with ). Her memoires of her time in parliament were published in 2014 by Hansen og synir as Útistöður.

References[]

External links[]

• Althing biography

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