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Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir

Bio

Lóa Hlín Hjálmtýsdóttir was born in on February 4th 1979. She is a cartoonist, an artist, an illustrator, a writer, a musician and a playwright. Lóa graduated from the visual arts programme in FB, The Breiðholt Secondary School in 1999 and completed a BFA in visual arts from The Iceland Arts Academy in 2003. She studied illustration and comics in Parsons, New York in 2007-2008. 2016 she graduated with a MA degree in creative writing from The University of Iceland. Lóa is a founding member of the band FM Belfast since 2005 and is also one of the owners of World Champion Records.

Lóa‘s first comics collection was Generalisations About Nations (2009). In addition to illustrations in numerous books she has published short stories, comics and articles in various media, such as Iceland Review, The Guardian and Reykjavík Grapevine.

Lóa‘s work can be found in social media : Lóaboratoríum.