Guðmundur Kamban

Guðmundur Jónsson was born on 8 June 1888, the son of a merchant from an old Icelandic family, and took the name Kamban in 1908. He left in 1910 for the University of Copenhagen, where he obtained a master's degree in letters; he became known in 1914 through the play Hadda Padda, tried from 1915 to 1917 to establish himself in New York as an English-language writer, then became a stage director in Copenhagen. Writing in Icelandic as well as in Danish, he married the actress Agnete Egeberg and produced films until 1934. After London, then Berlin from 1935 to 1938, he returned to Copenhagen, where he died on 5 May 1945.

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• NovelThe Virgin of SkalholtSkálholtGuðmundur Kamban · 1930Literature