Tómas Guðmundsson
Author
1901 – 1983
Who was Tómas Guðmundsson?
Tómas Guðmundsson was an Icelandic author. He was known as Reykjavík's poet.
Tómas's parents were Steinunn Þorsteinsdóttir and Guðmundur Ögmundsson, living at Efri-Brú in Grímsnes. He soon got in touch with literature and poetry. He read Icelandic sagas, Jónas Hallgrímsson's poems and more. He also started to write his own poetry at a young age.
He moved to Reykjavík and studied at Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík, there he got in touch with many authors, including Halldór Laxness, Guðmundur G. Hagalín and Davíð Stefánsson. Tómas graduated from M.R. in 1921.
He then studied law at Háskóli Íslands and graduated in 1926. During that time he got in touch with even more authors, including Jón Thoroddsen junior.
After his graduation he opened an office to practice law and in 1928 he started working at Hagstofa Íslands. He closed his office in 1929 and quit at the bureau in 1943.
From 1943 he was mostly working at poetry and authorship. He was one the editors of Helgafell and Nýja Helgafell, he also translated stories, plays and poems.
Tomas died 1983 in Reykjavík, aged 82.
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- Born
- Jan 6, 1901
Iceland - Ethnicity
- Icelanders
- Nationality
- Iceland
- Died
- Nov 14, 1983
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on July 23, 2013
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