Jón Stefán Sveinsson, SJ, better known as Nonni (16 November 1857 – 16 October 1944), was an

Iceland Iceland is a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ...

ic children's writer and member of the

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. He left Iceland in 1870 for France, where he converted to

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. His children's stories concerning a character named Nonni are well known in Iceland and parts of Europe. Nonni's House (Nonnahús), his childhood home in

Akureyri Akureyri (, ) is a town in northern Iceland, the country's fifth most populous Municipalities of Iceland, municipality (under the official name of Akureyrarbær , 'town of Akureyri') and the largest outside the Capital Region (Iceland), Capital R ...

, is now a museum dedicated to his life and work, and he has been featured on postage stamps. Jón Sveinsson's stories of growing up with his brother Ármann, nicknamed "Manni", were adapted into an Icelanic-West German television series '' Nonni and Manni''.

Bibliography

Titles are currently listed in German. * Nonni * Nonni und Manni * Sonnentage * Die Stadt am Sund * Abenteuer auf den Inseln * Auf Skipalon * Nonni erzählt * Zwischen Eis und Feuer * Wie Nonni das Glück fand * Aus Island. Erlebnisse und Erinnerungen. Freiburg, Herder 1913 * Die Feuerinsel im Nordmeer * Nonnis Reise um die Welt Band 1: Nonni in Amerika Band 2: Nonni in Japan

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Postage stamp with bioNonni House museum in Akureyri
1857 births 1944 deaths Converts to Roman Catholicism Jon Sveinsson Jon Sveinsson Jon Sveinsson {{Iceland-writer-stub