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Thor Vilhjálmsson

Died in 2011

Thor Vilhjálmsson was born on 12 August 1925 in Edinburgh. He studied literature in Reykjavík, Nottingham and at the Sorbonne, worked for the theatre and at the National Library of Iceland, long ran the cultural review Birtingur and held posts in writers' and artists' associations. A novelist, poet, playwright and translator, a figure of Icelandic modernism, he received the Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy in 1992 and the Icelandic Literary Prize in 1998. He died on 2 March 2011.

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