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The Bókmenntaverðlaun Tómasar Guðmundssonar (Tómas Guðmundsson literature award) is an award which the city of
Reykjavík Reykjavík ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói bay. Its latitude is 64°08' N, making it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. With a po ...
awards in memory of the poet
Tómas Guðmundsson Tómas Guðmundsson (6 January 1901 – 14 November 1983) was an Icelandic writer. He was known as Reykjavík's poet ''(Reykjavíkurskáldið, skáld Reykjavíkur)''. Tómas's parents were Steinunn Þorsteinsdóttir and Guðmundur Ögmundsson, liv ...
. The award was first made in 1994, and thereafter every other year up to 2005, whereupon the award was made annually. The award is given to an unpublished poetry collection, which is then published.


Award winners

* 1994 - Helgi Ingólfsson, ''Letrað í vindinn'' * 1997 - Ebba Gunnarsdóttir, ''Sumar sögur'' * 1998 -
Bjarni Bjarnason Bjarni Bjarnason (born 9 November 1965) is an Icelandic writer. He started writing poetry in his teens and by twenty had a play. He has received the Tómas Guðmundsson Award, Halldór Laxness Literature Award, and in 1996 was nominated for the ...
, ''Borgin bak við orðin'' * 2000 - Hjörtur Björgvin Marteinsson, ''AM 00'' * 2002 - Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir, ''Sólar Saga'' * 2004 -
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (born 1958) is an Icelandic professor of art history, a novelist, playwright and poet. She received the Nordic Council Literature Prize for ''Hotel Silence'' in 2018 and the Médicis Foreign Award for ''Miss Iceland'' in ...
, ''Rigning í nóvember'' * 2006 - Ingunn Snædal, ''Guðlausir menn - Hugleiðingar um jökulvatn og ást'' * 2007 - Ari Jóhannesson, ''Öskudagar'' * 2008 - Magnús Sigurðsson, ''Fiðrildi, mynta og spörfuglar Lesbíu'' * 2009 - Eyþór Árnason, ''Hundgá úr annarri sveit'' * 2010 -
Þórdís Gísladóttir Þórdís Gísladóttir, also Thordis Gisladottir, (born 14 July 1965) is an Icelanders, Icelandic children's book author, poet, novelist and a translator. She is known for her children's stories about Randalin and Mundi and her poetry has also ...
, ''Leyndarmál annarra''. * 2011 -
Sindri Freysson Sindri Freysson (born 23 July 1970 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic novelist and poet. His first book, a collection of poems entitled ''Fljótið sofandi konur'' (''The River Sleeping Women''), was published in 1992. His first novel, ''Augun í b ...
''Í klóm dalalæðunnar'' * 2012 - Dagur Hjartarson, ''Þar sem vindarnir hvílast - og fleiri einlæg ljóð'' * 2013 - Bjarki Karlsson, ''Árleysi alda'' * 2014 - Hjörtur Marteinsson, ''Alzheimer-tilbrigðin'' * 2015 - Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson, Til hughreystingar þeim sem finna sig ekki í samtíma sínum * 2016 - Eyrún Ósk Jónsdóttir, Góðfúslegt leyfi til sígarettukaupa * 2017 - Jónas Reynir Gunnarsson, Stór olíuskip * 2018 - Haukur Ingvarssonar, Vistarverur * 2019 - Harpa Rún Kristjánsdóttir, Edda * 2020 - Ragnheiður Lárusdóttir, 1900 og eitthvað


Sources

* {{cite web, url=http://reykjavik.is/thjonusta/bokmenntaverdlaun-tomasar-gudmundssonar, title=Vefur Reykjavíkurborgar - Bókmenntaverðlaun Tómasar Guðmundssonar. Icelandic literary awards Awards established in 1994 1994 establishments in Iceland