Q:Facts: - death place: rudersdorf - death date: 24 december 2013 - pseudonym: helga m. novak - birth date: 8 september 1935 - name: maria karlsdottir - nationality: german , icelandic - birth place: berlin Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of helga m. novak .
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helga m. novak -lrb- pseudonym for maria karlsdottir ; 8 september 1935 -- 24 december 2013 in rudersdorf -rrb- was a german-icelandic writer .novak was born in berlin .she grew up in east germany , studied journalism and philosophy at the university of leipzig .she moved to iceland in 1961 , where she married and had two children before her divorce .she traveled to spain , france , and the u.s. , before returning to east germany .when her citizenship was revoked for writing and publishing critical texts , she moved between iceland , germany and bulgaria .she was an informer -lrb- '' inoffizieller mitarbeiter '' -rrb- for the east german stasi .although a citizen of iceland , she lived in legbad , poland , from 1987 until her death in 2013 .