biography
| name: |
Sigurjónsson, Jóhann
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pronunciation:
[seegoorjohnson]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1880–1919)
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| biography:
| Playwright and poet, born in Laxamýri, N Iceland. He studied veterinary science in Copenhagen before turning to literature, writing simultaneously in Danish and Icelandic in order to gain a wider audience. He used Icelandic folk-tale motifs for his major play, Fjalla-Eyvindur (1911, Eyvind of the Mountains), which took Copenhagen by storm, was produced in England and the USA, and made into a film. The first Icelandic writer in modern times to achieve international recognition, his other plays include Dr Rung (1908), Bonden á Hrauni (1908, The Farmer at Hraun), and Logneren (1917, The Liar). |
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