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Updated: May 24, 2025
Jón Trausti and Einar H. Kvaran who between them form an interesting contrast were the most prolific novelists at the beginning of the present century. By that time prose was becoming an increasingly important part of Icelandic literature. It would be more or less true to say that in the first thirty years of the century it had gained an equal footing with poetry.
But he was able to take his sip of brandy to his dying day and repeat to himself the word of God hymns and verses from the Bible. Now he has passed on to eternity. But his memory lives like a stone- -a large, moss-covered stone by the wayside. Jón TRAUSTI I was stormbound in the fishing village.
Jón Trausti, the son of a farm labourer and his wife, who had been born on one of the northernmost farms in Iceland in a barren and outlying district, was brought up in dire poverty. From an early age he had had to fend for himself as a farmhand and fisherman, finally settling in Reykjavík as a printer.
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