Björk Guðmundsdóttir: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Björk Guðmundsdóttir said elsewhere, not written here

I find most children quite inspiring.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2013 source ↗

Others on this question

Anne Robinson English television presenter and journalist

Any mother with young children who is also doing a full-time job.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 August 2010 source ↗

Anne Enright Novelist and short-story writer

Catherine Corless, who spent her own money to secure birth certificates for the unrecorded dead children of the Tuam mother and baby home.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 September 2024 source ↗

Meg Rosoff American novelist

My husband is the kindest, funniest, most strange and wondrous person I know.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 November 2013 source ↗

Phil Daniels English actor and singer

My mum – she's in her 90s, lives on her own, is lucid, wise and funny. And knows what a selfie is.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 July 2014 source ↗

Merging with nature or merging with people.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2013 source ↗

Yesterday. Love.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2013 source ↗

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