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Steinn Steinarr

Died in 1958

Aðalsteinn Kristmundsson was born on 13 October 1908 at Laugaland, in north-west Iceland, to labouring parents so poor that the authorities dispersed their children; an old housekeeper, Kristín Tómasdóttir, took him in. Encouraged by the poet Stefán frá Hvítadal, he studied at Saurbær under Jóhannes úr Kötlum, then at Núpur, in Dýrafjörður. Settled in Reykjavík in 1926, he joined the Communist Party, from which his comrades later pushed him out. He took the name Steinn Steinarr for his first book, in 1934, married Ásthildur Björnsdóttir in 1948 and died in Reykjavík on 25 May 1958.

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