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To the leaves. Poem by Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson.
Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson was born in Hlíð in Garðahreppur, Gullbringusýsla County, but grew up from childhood in Torfastöðir in Grafning. Parents Sigurður Jónsson, farmer and district governor, and Ingibjörg Þóra Jónsdóttir. In 1933, when Ólafur Jóhann Sgurðsson was 15 years old, he moved to Reykjavík determined to become a poet.
He stayed in Copenhagen in the winter of 1936–1937 and in New York in the winter of 1943–1944, where he attended lectures on modern literature and fiction writing at Columbia University.
Ólafur's first book, the novel Við Álftavatn, was published in 1934, when he was 16. In it, he publishes fragments of stories based on memories from his childhood.
In 1936, a popular sequel to his story, The Story of the Broken Glass, was published in Æskunn, which was later published as a book in 1970.
Ólafur wrote mainly fiction, both stories and poems, intended for adults, and many of them have been translated into foreign languages, including Spóa, Glerbrotið, Um sumarkvöld and Litbrigði jarðar.
In 1972, Ólafur received the Silfurhestin, the newspapers' literary award, and in 1976 he received the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for his poetry books Að laufferjum and Að brunnum.
Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson was born in Hlíð in Garðahreppur, Gullbringusýsla County, but grew up from childhood in Torfastöðir in Grafning. Parents Sigurður Jónsson, farmer and district governor, and Ingibjörg Þóra Jónsdóttir. In 1933, when Ólafur Jóhann Sgurðsson was 15 years old, he moved to Reykjavík determined to become a poet.
He stayed in Copenhagen in the winter of 1936–1937 and in New York in the winter of 1943–1944, where he attended lectures on modern literature and fiction writing at Columbia University.
Ólafur's first book, the novel Við Álftavatn, was published in 1934, when he was 16. In it, he publishes fragments of stories based on memories from his childhood.
In 1936, a popular sequel to his story, The Story of the Broken Glass, was published in Æskunn, which was later published as a book in 1970.
Ólafur wrote mainly fiction, both stories and poems, intended for adults, and many of them have been translated into foreign languages, including Spóa, Glerbrotið, Um sumarkvöld and Litbrigði jarðar.
In 1972, Ólafur received the Silfurhestin, the newspapers' literary award, and in 1976 he received the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for his poetry books Að laufferjum and Að brunnum.