Þorsteinn frá Hamri

Þorsteinn frá Hamri (aka Þorsteinn Jónsson), (15 Mar 1938 – 28 Jan 2018) was an Icelandic writer notable for having been nominated four times for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize over a period of two decades.

Writings[]

Since his first book of poems released in the 1950s, Þorsteinn frá Hamri had published seventeen volumes of poetry and six of prose fiction by 2000.^[1]

References[]

See also

• Þorsteinn Jonsson entry in Dennis McIntire, International Who's Who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopaedia, Routledge, 2001, pp. 270–271.
• Hermann Stefánsson (Transl. Dagur Gunnarsson), 'The clamour of elves and the magic of birds – On the writings of Þorsteinn frá Hamri', Reykjavík City Library, 2002.

Bibliography[]

Novels, short stories and sagnaþættir (chronicles)[]

• 1963 – Skuldaskil (The Reckoning)
• 1969 – Himinbjargarsaga eða Skógadraumur (The Story of Himinbjörg or a Forest Dream) – nominated for 1972 Nordic Council Literature Prize
• Haust í Skírisskógi (Autumn in Sherwood Forest)
• Hallgrímur smali og húsfreyjan á bjargi, (Hallgrímur the sheaphearder and the housekeeper at Bjarg)
• 1987 – Ætternisstapi og átján vermenn (The ancestral home and eighteen sailors)
• 1989 – Vatns götur og blóðs (Streets of Water and Blood) – nominated for 1992 Nordic Council Literature Prize

Poetry[]

• 1958 – Í svörtum kufli (In a black cassock)
• 1960 – Tannfé handa nýjum heimi (Tooth fee for a New World)
• 1962 – Lifandi manna land (Land of living men)
• 1964 – Langnætti á Kaldadal (A long night in Kaldidalur (cold valley))
• 1972 – Veðrahjálmur (Weather helmet)
• 1977 – Fiðrið úr sæng daladrottningar (The feathers from the valley queen's duvet) – nominated for 1979 Nordic Council Literature Prize
• 1982 – Spjótalög á spegil (Spearthrusted mirror) – nominated for 1984 Nordic Council Literature Prize
• 1992 – Sæfarinn sofandi (The sleeping sailor)
• Það talar í trjánum (Speaking in the trees)
• Vetrarmyndin (Winter image)
• 1999 – Medan pu vaktir

Prizes and awards[]

• 1972 – short list – Nordic Council Literature Prize
• 1979 – short list – Nordic Council Literature Prize
• 1981 – Children's book literary award for translation, Reykjavík
• 1984 – short list – Nordic Council Literature Prize
• 1991 – Thorbergur Thordarson Literary Prize
• 1992 – short list – Nordic Council Literature Prize
• 1992 – Icelandic Literary Prize

External links[]

• The Nordic Council's Literature Prize
• https://bokmenntaborgin.is/en/literature-web/author/thorsteinn-fra-hamri Biography of Þorsteinn frá Hamri at Reykjavík City Library]
• An image of the writer and example of his work (In Icelandic)

See also[]

• Icelandic literature