Agnes Magnúsdóttir
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Jennifer Lawrence To Play Last Woman Executed In Iceland
American actress Jennifer Lawrence will play the last executed Icelandic woman in the movie “Burial Rites,” according to Variety. The film will be directed by Italian director Luca Guadagnino and it is based on Australian writer Hannah Kent’s novel of the same name,…
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Monster or Martyr
Based on the real story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, who in 1830 became the last person to be executed for a crime in Iceland, ‘Burial Rites,’ the debut novel by Australian author Hannah Kent, is the culmination of ten years’ of writing, research,…