She is fluent in several languages but says she would only ever write in her mother tongue. “I think that the world needs stories that are told in Icelandic.”Which is what Ólafsdóttir does.
تتقن الروائية لغات عديدة لكنها تفضل الكتابة بلغتها الأم وتقول:" أعتقد بأن العالم يحتاج قصصا تُروى باللغة الآيسلندية.