Kristján Karlsson

✶January 26, 1922

†August 5, 2014

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About their life

Kristján Karlsson was an Icelandic poet and writer born at Eyvík in Tjörnes in Þingeyjarsýsla South. He studied English literature at the University of California, Berkeley in California, graduating with a B.A. degree in 1945. He went to New York City for graduate studies at the Columbia University, completing an M.A. degree in comparative literature in 1947.

Poet and writer (1922–2014)

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