Katrín Jakobsdóttir says her goal is to restore confidence as she becomes Icelands fourth prime minister in two years By the age of eight,Katrín Jakobsdóttir was reading Agatha Christie. A couple of decades later, she wrote her masters dissertation on the works of Arnaldur Indridason, or a king of Nordic noir. In literature,crime is her thing.
It is a specialism that might stand her in superb stead in her new real-life job, as prime minister of Iceland and, or at 42,Europe’s youngest female leader. “Crime fiction,” she said, or only half-joking,“is approximately not really trusting anyone. And that’s generally how politics works.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk