Eysteinn Björnsson (born Stöðvarfjörður January 9, 1942) is an Icelandic writer.

Career

From 1954 Eysteinn lived in Siglufjörður, graduated from Menntaskólinn á Akureyri in 1961, and went on to study Icelandic, English, and geography at the

University of Iceland The University of Iceland ( ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' school to a modern co ...

until 1967. 1984 saw him studying English literature at

Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...

; in 1988 he took his Cand Mag degree in English literature from the University of Iceland with the dissertation 'The men of the soil and mother earth: a comparison of the trilogy ''A Scots Quair'' by Lewis Grassic Gibbon and ''Independent People'' and ''Salka Valka'' by Halldor Kiljan Laxness'. For much of his life, Eysteinn taught in Icelandic schools, until retiring in 1991, when began to focus on his writing. He has written prose, poetry, journalism, and for television and radio.

Major publications

Children's books

*''Út í blámann'' (2002) (Into the Blue) *''Stelpan sem talar við snigla'' (2006) (The Girl who Talks to Snails) *'' Hrafnaspark'' (2010) (Scrawl)

Poetry

*''Dagnætur'' (1993) (Light Nights) *''Fylgdu mér slóð'' (1998) (Follow my Trail) *''Logandi kveikur'' (2005) (A Flaming Wick)

Novels

*''Bergnuminn'' (1989) (Petrified) *''Snæljós'' (1996) (Snowlight) *''Í skugga heimsins: skáldsaga'' (1999)

Translations

*''Saga um strák'' (2004) ( Nick Hornby, '' About a Boy'')

References

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