Herbert, Megan

Alda Sigmundsdottir is an Icelandic-born writer, journalist, translator and blogger. She is author of The Little Book of the Icelanders, a humorous take on the quirks and foibles of the Icelandic people, and Living Inside the Meltdown, about the effects of Iceland's financial crash on ordinary citizens. For six years she wrote Iceland's most popular English-language blog, The Iceland Weather Report, which among other things chronicled Iceland's economic meltdown and was featured in media all over the world. English is her first language, and she has written extensively about Iceland for the in...