Jónína Leósdóttir

{{Short description|Icelandic writer (born 1954)}}

{{icelandic name|Jónína}}

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| caption = Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (second from right) and Jónína (far left) with Slovenian President Danilo Türk and his wife, Barbara. Official visit to Slovenia.

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| occupation = Novelist
playwright
Journalist

| spouse = Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

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Jónína Leósdóttir (born 16 May 1954){{Citation |url=http://eng.forsaetisraduneyti.is/minister/cv |title=CV: Prime Minister of Iceland Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir |publisher=Prime Minister's Office |accessdate=August 28, 2011}} is an Icelandic novelist, playwright, former journalist and spouse of former Prime Minister of Iceland Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (2009-2013).

She is the author of a dozen plays, eleven novels, two biographies and a collection of articles she originally wrote for a women's magazine. Her books have been translated into several languages.{{cite web| url=http://joninaleosdottir.com/books/| title= Books| publisher=Jónína Leósdótti|accessdate=December 27, 2018}}

She is married to the former Icelandic Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, who was the first openly lesbian head of government in modern history.{{cite web |last1=Brandsma |first1=Elliott |title=We Are All the Same |url=https://grapevine.is/icelandic-culture/literature-and-poetry/2014/09/10/we-are-all-the-same/ |website=The Reykjavík Grapevine |date=10 September 2014 |access-date=15 September 2021}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1875032,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201032636/http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1875032,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 1, 2009|title=Iceland Picks the World's First Openly Gay PM|first=Jonas|last=Moody|publisher=Time|date=January 30, 2009|accessdate=January 31, 2009}} They were one of the first same-sex couples in Iceland to get married (in 2010, shortly after the law took effect, and while Jóhanna was in office);{{Cite news|title = Iceland PM weds as gay marriage legalised|date = June 28, 2010|url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/iceland/7858150/Iceland-PM-weds-as-gay-marriage-legalised.html|accessdate = July 24, 2013|work = The Daily Telegraph}} and until 2015, Jónína was the only modern person to have been the same-sex spouse of a sitting head of government (Belgium's Elio Di Rupo has never been married, while Luxembourg's Xavier Bettel was unable to legally marry until 1 January 2015).{{cite news| url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/10756847/Icelands-Jonina-Leosdottir-I-was-the-worlds-first-lesbian-First-Lady.html| title= Iceland's Jónína Leósdóttir: I was the world's first lesbian First Lady|last=Sanghani|first=Radhika|work=The Telegraph| date=April 10, 2014|accessdate=December 27, 2018}} The pair met in 1983.{{cite news| url= https://elpais.com/sociedad/2014/04/11/actualidad/1397228247_965193.html| title= La esposa de la presidenta|language=es| last=Voces| first=Carmen| work=El País| date=April 13, 2014|accessdate=December 27, 2018}}

Jónina published the biography of Rósa Ingólfsdóttir in 1992.{{Cite web |title=Rósumál, líf og störf Rósu Ingólfsdóttur - Bókalind antikbókabúð |url=https://bokalind.is/vara/rosumal-lif-og-storf-rosu-ingolfsdottur/ |access-date=2024-10-16 |website=Bókalind |language=is}} Her book, Sundur og saman (Back and Forth) appeared in 1993. The book was about a child whose parents divorced. She has now written a book about her relationship with the former prime minister.{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3012448.J_n_na_Le_sd_ttir|title=Jónína Leósdóttir|publisher=|accessdate=December 31, 2016}}

She has a BA in English and Literature from the University of Iceland, and has worked at the University of Essex.{{cite magazine| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=OJdGDwAAQBAJ&q=J%C3%B3n%C3%ADna+Le%C3%B3sd%C3%B3ttir+ba+english+and+literature| title= Mystery Tribune / Issue Nº2: Summer 2017| magazine= Mystery Tribune| issue= 2| date= July 2017| accessdate= December 27, 2018| last1= Tribune| first1= Mystery| last2= Coleman| first2= Reed Farrel| last3= Corridan| first3= Shawn| last4= Fiore| first4= Dan| last5= Hart| first5= Rob| last6= Keaton| first6= David James| last7= Fox-Lerner| first7= Aaron| last8= Sweeney| first8= Teresa}}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}