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Gunnar Gunnarsson

Died in 1975

Gunnar Gunnarsson was born on 18 May 1889 in the Fljótsdalur valley, in eastern Iceland, and grew up in poverty at Valþjófsstaður, then in Vopnafjörður. Leaving in 1907 for two years at the folk high school of Askov, in Denmark, he chose to write in Danish to reach a wider public and became one of the most widely read novelists in Denmark and Germany. Proposed several times for the Nobel Prize, he returned in 1939 to Skriðuklaustur, met Hitler in 1940 during a lecture tour, settled in Reykjavík in 1948, translated his own books there into Icelandic and died there on 21 November 1975.

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