Anna Yates

Anna Yates is a writer and translator of mixed English and Icelandic descent, who lives and works in Reykjavík and London. Raised mostly in London and a little in Paris, after university she went to Iceland in search of her roots, and has been there ever since.

She holds degrees in history from Bristol University, and in Icelandic from the University of Iceland, and is a certified legal translator. She worked for some years as a journalist and translator for Iceland's leading English-language publisher, Iceland Review, before going freelance.

Anna is the author of Leifur Eiriksson and Vinland the Good, republished as The Viking Discovery of America. She translates extensively from Icelandic into English. In addition to fiction, her translations include a wide range of books and projects about Iceland and its nature, history and arts.