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Einar Már Guðmundsson (born 18 September 1954 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic author of novels, short stories, and poetry. His books have been translated into several languages.
Einar Már Guðmundsson (fæddur 18. september 1954 í Reykjavík) er íslenskur rithöfundur og skáld. Árið 1995 hlaut hann Bókmenntaverðlaun Norðurlandaráðs fyrir skáldsögu sína Englar alheimsins. Árið 2012 hlaut hann Norrænu bókmenntaverðlaun sænsku akademíunnar fyrir framlag sitt til bókmennta.
Einar Már Guðmundsson received a B.A. in Comparative Literature and History from the University of Iceland in 1979, after which he moved to Copenhagen to do graduate work in Comparative Literature at the University of Copenhagen.
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Einar Már Guðmundsson er fæddur í Reykjavík 18. september 1954. Hann lauk stúdentsprófi frá Menntaskólanum við Tjörnina 1975 og B.A. prófi í bókmenntum og sagnfræði frá Háskóla Íslands 1979. Hann bjó í Kaupmannahöfn í sex ár og stundaði framhaldsnám í bókmenntafræði við Kaupmannahafnarháskóla.
Einar Már Guðmundsson is one of the most widely translated Icelandic authors born in the postwar period. Gudmundsson has received many awards and distinctions for his books, such as the Norwegian Bjørnson Prize, the Scharnberg Memorial Award in Denmark, The Karen Blixen Medal, and The Giuseppe Acerbi Literary Prize in Italy.
In the Literature Web overview of Einar Már’s writing since the turn of the century, Þröstur Helgason writes that his prose works have been “characterized by searching, a search for a narrative mode, a point of view, words, meaning.”.
Hundadagar ('Dog-Days') is a 2015 novel by Einar Már Guðmundsson, published in Reykjavík by Mál og menning. It won the 2015 Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunin in the literature category. It is set between the 1720s and the 1820s and prominently features the English collector of (inter alia) Icelandic manuscripts Joseph Banks. Translations
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