About Þorsteinn frá Hamri
Lived 1938 – 2018 (aged 79). Þorsteinn frá Hamri was an Icelandic librarian, writer, poet and translator.
Þorsteinn frá Hamri (aka Þorsteinn Jónsson), (15 March 1938 – 28 January 2018) was an Icelandic writer notable for having been nominated five times for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize over a period of 35 years.
Hamri died on 28 January 2018, at the age of 79.
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.
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Who was Þorsteinn frá Hamri?
Icelandic writer
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Þorsteinn frá Hamri was born on 15 March 1938.
When did Þorsteinn frá Hamri die?
Þorsteinn frá Hamri died on 28 January 2018.
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Þorsteinn frá Hamri was a librarian, writer, poet and translator.
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Þorsteinn frá Hamri was Icelandic.
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