Guðbergur Bergsson

Guðbergur Bergsson was born on 16 October 1932 in Grindavík. After qualifying as a teacher in Iceland, he went to study literature in Barcelona, where he became friends with the publisher Jaime Salinas, and became one of Iceland's leading translators of Spanish works. He published his first book in 1961, then some twenty others, including poems and children's books. The first writer to receive the Icelandic Literary Prize twice, in 1991 and 1997, he won the Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy in 2004 and died on 4 September 2023 in Mosfellsbær.

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• NovelTómas Jónsson, BestsellerTómas Jónsson, metsölubókGuðbergur Bergsson · 1966Literature