Lit in Translation

Thor Vilhjálmsson

Born 1925 · Iceland

In English
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Books on prize lists

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    Icelandic Literary Prize 2002 · Shortlist

    Sveigur

    Title translated by AI:“Wreath”

    Thor Vilhjálmsson · 77 when first published

    Novel · 207 pages · Historical

    AI-generated summary:Guðmundur the poet grows up in poverty, learns to read while in service with monks, and as a grown man falls in with the great chieftains of thirteenth-century Iceland, among them Sturla Sighvatsson.