biography
| name: |
Thoroddsen, Jón
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originally Jón Thórðarson
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pronunciation:
[thorodsn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1818–68)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in Reykhólar, NW Iceland. He studied law at Copenhagen, and wrote drinking songs in the style of Carl Michael Bellmann (1740–95). He was an avid reader of Sir Walter Scott, and used him as a model for his first book, Piltur og Stúlka (1850, Boy and Girl), the earliest proper novel produced in Iceland. In addition to a sheaf of lyrics, he also wrote an unfinished sequel to his first novel, Maður og Kona (Man and Woman, published posthumously in 1876). He is regarded as the father of the modern Icelandic novel. |
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