Thor Vilhjálmsson

Thor Vilhjálmsson ( born August 12, 1925 in Edinburgh; † 2 March 2011) was an Icelandic writer who made ​​the headlines, its experimental style of itself.

Works

In 1968, his novella Quick quickly said the bird. It is characterized mainly linguistic and formal finesse his style. This also applies to his mystery novel " The gray moss glows " (1986). This was the 1988 Literature Prize of the Nordic Council. His novel Morgenlied in stalks (1998) is about the medieval Iceland in the period from the Free State to the Norwegian annexation; subsequently appeared in 2002, the novel Sveigur.

In German translation

  • Iceland. Edited by Klaus D. Francke. Ed. Stemmle, Zurich 1994. ISBN 3-905514-16-8
  • The gray moss glows ( glóir Grámosinn, 1986). From the Icelandic by Gert Kreutzer, Marita Bergsson and Günther Wigand. Kleinheinrich, Münster 1990. ISBN 3-926608-41-2
  • Gray moss ( Grámosinn glóir, 1986). From the Icelandic by Gert Kreutzer, Marita Bergsson and Günther Wigand. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 1998. ISBN 3-548-24230-8
  • Morning prayer. Novel. Translation: Gert Kreutzer. Osburg Verlag Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-940731-65-4
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