Author · Iceland
Einar Kvaran
Died in 1938
Einar Hjörleifsson was born on 6 December 1859 in Vallanes, the son of the pastor Hjörleifur Einarsson. A student of economics in Copenhagen, he published in 1882, with fellow students, the single issue of the journal Verðandi, which brought the modern breakthrough of Georg Brandes into Iceland. From 1885 to 1895, he lived in Winnipeg, where he helped found the weeklies Heimskringla and Lögberg, then he was a journalist and editor in Reykjavík and Akureyri. In 1916 he took the name Kvaran, drawn from a saga, presided over the first Icelandic society for psychic research and died in Reykjavík on 21 May 1938.
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- Short storiesVonirEinar Kvaran · 1889not translated into EnglishLiterature