Kristmann Guðmundsson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Icelandic writer
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Place of Birth: Borgarfjörður, Western Region, Iceland
About Kristmann Guðmundsson
- Kristmann Guðmundsson (October 23, 1901, Thverfell, Borgarfjörður — November 20, 1983, Reykjavík) was an Icelandic novelist notable for his works of romantic fiction. Kristmann was born out of wedlock to a country girl who left him in the care of her impoverished family.
- He ran away from home at the age of thirteen.
- From 1924 to 1937 he lived in Norway, and returned to Reykjavík in 1938. Kristmann worked first as a journalist, then as a writer.
- He wrote more than thirty books, several of them in Norwegian, of romantic fiction.
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