Jón Trausti

Guðmundur Magnússon was born on 12 February 1873 at Rif, on Melrakkaslétta, the northernmost farm in Iceland, to poor parents. After his father's death in 1877, he spent five years at Skinnalón, then joined his mother, who had remarried. An apprentice printer at the newspaper Austri in Seyðisfjörður, he entered the Ísafold press in Reykjavík in 1895, trained further in Copenhagen from 1896 to 1898 and remained a typesetter all his life. He painted theatre sets, taught himself the organ, and published poems at first under his own name, then, from 1906, novels under the name Jón Trausti. He died on 18 November 1918.

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• NovelHallaJón Trausti · 1906not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain