Hannes Sigfússon

	Hannes Sigfússon Hannes Sigfússon (1922–1997) was an Icelandic poet and writer. He was an editor of ''Birtingur'', the journal of the Atom Poets The Atom Poets were a group of Icelandic modernist poets working in the wake of modernist poets like Steinn Steinarr and Jón úr Vör, the most prominent of whom were Einar Bragi, Hannes Sigfússon, Jón Óskar, Sigfús Daðason, Dagur Sigurða ....Neijmann, Daisy L.(2007)A history of Icelandic literature In addition to his poetry, Sigfússon published novels and memoirs and was active as a translator. Selected works Dymbilvaka. 1949 Imbrudagar. 1951 Strandið : skáldsaga. 1955. Sprek á eldinn. 1961 Kyrjálaheiði. 1995 References Hannes Sigfússon Modernist poets 1922 births 1997 deaths Hannes Sigfússon {{Iceland-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Icelandic Literature Icelandic literature refers to literature written in Iceland or by Icelandic people. It is best known for the sagas written in medieval times, starting in the 13th century. As Icelandic and Old Norse are almost the same, and because Icelandic works constitute most of Old Norse literature, Old Norse literature is often wrongly considered a subset of Icelandic literature. However, works by Norwegians are present in the standard reader ''Sýnisbók íslenzkra bókmennta til miðrar átjándu aldar'', compiled by Sigurður Nordal on the grounds that the language was the same. Early Icelandic literature The medieval Icelandic literature is usually divided into three parts: Eddic poetry Sagas Skaldic poetry The ''Eddas'' There has been some discussion on the probable etymology of the term "Edda". Most say it stems from the Old Norse term ''edda'', which means great-grandmother, but some see a reference to Oddi, a place where Snorri Sturluson Snorri Sturluson ( ; ; 1179 – 22 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Atom Poets The Atom Poets were a group of Icelandic modernist poets working in the wake of modernist poets like Steinn Steinarr and Jón úr Vör, the most prominent of whom were Einar Bragi, Hannes Sigfússon, Jón Óskar, Sigfús Daðason, Dagur Sigurðarson and Stefán Hörður Grímsson, who all began their careers in the 1940s and 1950s. The term was coined by Icelandic's Nobel Prize-winning novelist Halldór Laxness in his 1948 novel ''The Atom Station The Atom Station ( is, Atómstöðin) is a novel by Icelandic author Halldór Laxness, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955. The initial print run sold out on the day it was published, for the first time in Icelandic history. ...'': in Daisy Nejmann's summary, "the atom poet in the novel is a bad poet and a less than sympathetic character." The name, at first used pejoratively, stuck, and came to mean all poetry written in a non-traditional manner. In contrast, the atom poets' work is more complex and introspec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Icelandic Poets Icelandic refers to anything of, from, or related to Iceland and may refer to: Icelandic people Icelandic language Icelandic alphabet Icelandic cuisine See also * Icelander (other) * Icelandic Airlines, a predecessor of Icelandair * Icelandic horse, a breed of domestic horse * Icelandic sheep, a breed of domestic sheep * Icelandic Sheepdog, a breed of domestic dog * Icelandic cattle, a breed of cattle * Icelandic chicken, a breed of chicken {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Modernist Poets This is a list of major poets of the Modernist movement. English-language Modernist poets Marion Angus W. H. Auden Djuna Barnes Elizabeth Bishop Rupert Brooke Basil Bunting Hart Crane E. E. Cummings H.D. T. S. Eliot Robert Frost Robert Graves Robert Hayden Gerard Manley Hopkins (precursor) A. E. Housman Langston Hughes Randall Jarrell David Jones Rudyard Kipling D. H. Lawrence Amy Lowell Robert Lowell Mina Loy Hugh MacDiarmid * Archibald MacLeish Marianne Moore Wilfred Owen Dorothy Parker Sylvia Plath Ezra Pound E. A. Robinson Edna St. Vincent Millay Delmore Schwartz Edith Sitwell Kenneth Slessor Gertrude Stein Wallace Stevens Allen Tate William Carlos Williams W. B. Yeats European Modernist poets Anna Akhmatova Guillaume Apollinaire Louis Aragon Gottfried Benn André Breton Constantine Cavafy René Char Charles Baudelaire Robert Desnos Gunnar Ekelöf Paul Éluard Georg Heym Jakob van Hoddis Max Jacob Srečko Kos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	1922 Births Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipkn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1997 Deaths File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of the most observed comets of the 20th century; Golden Bauhinia Square, where sovereignty of Hong Kong is handed over from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China; the 1997 Central European flood kills 114 people in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany; Korean Air Flight 801 crashes during heavy rain on Guam, killing 229; Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner land on Mars; flowers left outside Kensington Palace following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car crash in Paris., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Titanic (1997 film) rect 200 0 400 200 Harry Potter rect 400 0 600 200 Comet Hale-Bopp rect 0 200 300 400 Death of Diana, Princess of Wales rect 300 200 600 400 Handover of Hong Kong rect 0 400 200 600 Mars Pathfind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]