Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir studied History of Art at the Sorbonne and now teaches at Reykjavík University. She has published novels, plays, a collection of poems, and the short story “SMS Catalunya” (2009), and is also lyricist for the electronic pop music group Milkywhale. Her third novel, The Greenhouse (in Spanish, Rosa candida, Alfaguara, 2011), was her first major international success. It received the Quebec Bookseller Award, was a finalist for the Fémina Étranger prize, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. In 2019, she received the Prix Médicis for foreign literature for Miss Iceland (in Spanish, La escritora, Alfaguara, 2021), which describes the difficulties of a woman who wants to be a writer in the conservative Iceland of the 1960s. Animal Life (in Catalan, La veritat sobre la llum, Club Editor, 2022; also published in Spanish by Alfaguara in 2024), about the work of Icelandic midwives, is the book with which Ólafsdóttir became known in Catalan. Also published in Catalan, her most recent book, Edèn (Club Editor, 2024), explores the connections between loss of language and loss of nature.