Tómas Guðmundsson

Tómas Guðmundsson was born on 6 January 1901 at Efri-Brú, in Grímsnes, the son of Guðmundur Ögmundsson and Steinunn Þorsteinsdóttir, and read the sagas and Jónas Hallgrímsson early. He passed his school-leaving examination in Reykjavík in 1921 and took a law degree in 1926. In 1928 he opened a law office, which he closed the following year, and he worked at the statistics bureau until 1943. He then lived by his pen, by his translations of stories, plays and poems, and by the journals Helgafell and Nýja Helgafell, which he co-edited. He died in Reykjavík on 14 November 1983.

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• PoetryFagra veröldTómas Guðmundsson · 1933not translated into EnglishLiterature