biography
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Svensson, Jon Stefán
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| male
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| lived:
| (1857–1944)
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| biography:
| Writer and clergyman, born in Möðruvellir, NC Iceland. Educated in France, he became a Jesuit scholar and taught at a Catholic school in Denmark. During convalescence in The Netherlands from a severe illness (1911–12) he began to write a series of children's books about a boy called Nonni growing up in the N of Iceland, which made him a best-selling author. The Nonni books, originally written in German, have been translated into many languages. |
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