Guðmundur Friðjónsson
Guðmundur Friðjónsson (born October 24, 1869 in Sílalækur , Aðaldalur , today Þingeyjarsveit ; † June 24, 1944 in Húsavík ) was an Icelandic writer .
Life
Guðmundur was the son of the farmer Friðjón Jónsson and his wife Sigurbjörg Guðmundsdottír. Like his parents, Guðmundur later earned his living as a farmer. One of his siblings was Sigurjón , who was two years his senior and who was also known as a writer. In the 1880s, Iceland experienced a famine that shaped Guðmundur's early literary work. From 1891 to 1893 he attended a school in Möðruvellir .
In the early 1890s, Guðmundur began writing poetry and short stories. Many of them are designed as socially critical satires. Others were based on symbolism . He published his works in magazines and in 1898 in his first book, the Einir collection of short stories .
His marriage to Guðrun Oddsdóttir in 1899 is considered to be a turning point in his writing. If his early stories were still immature, this has now changed, even if his volume of poetry Úr heimahögum, published in 1902, was panned in a review in the journal Þjóðolfur . Guðmundur published numerous books with short stories and poems and in 1907 the novel Olöf í Ási . His work was influenced by old Icelandic literature and realism . Politically, Guðmundur - in contrast to Halldór Laxness , whose views he rejected - were more conservative.
Works
Poems
- Úr heimahögum (1902)
- Haustlöng (1905)
- Kvædi (1925)
- Kveðlingar (1929)
- Utan af víðavangi (1942)
Short prose
- Einir (1898)
- Undir BER lofti (1904)
- Tólf Sögur (1915)
- Tíu Sögur (1918)
- Úr öllum áttum (1919)
- Sólhvörf (1921)
- Kveldglæður (1923)
- Heðan and handan (1925)
- Sögur úr bygð og borg (1934)
- Úti á víðavangi (1938)
Essays
- Uppsprettulindir (1921)
Novels
- Olöf i Ási (1907)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Guðmundur Friðjónsson in Páll Eggert Ólason: Íslenzkar æviskrár frá landnámstímum til ársloka 1940 . Reykjavík, 1948-1976
- ↑ a b c d e Guðmundur Friðjónsson in Stefán Einarsson: History of Icelandic prose writers . Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1948
- ↑ Ernst Walter: Friðjónsson, Guðmundur in Horst Bien (ed.): Meyers Taschenlexikon Nordeuropean Literaturen , Leipzig 1978
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SURNAME | Guðmundur Friðjónsson |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Icelandic writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1869 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sílalækur , Aðaldalur (now Þingeyjarsveit ), Iceland |
DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1944 |
Place of death | Húsavík , Iceland |