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Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Born

in Reykjavík, Iceland

December 17, 1963

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry

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Jón moved to Keflavík when he was 12 and returned to Reykjavík in 1986 with his highschool diploma. From 1975 – 1982 he spent a good deal of his time in West Iceland, where he did various jobs: worked in a slaughterhouse, in the fishing industry, doing masonry and for one summer as a police officer at Keflavík International Airport. Jón Kalman studied literature at the University of Iceland from 1986 until 1991 but did not finish his degree. He taught literature at two highschools for a period of time and wrote articles and criticism for Morgunblaðið newspaper for a number of years. Jón lived in Copenhagen from 1992 – 1995, reading, washing floors and counting buses. He worked as a librarian at the Mosfellsbær Library near Reykjavík until t ...more

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Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s books

Average rating: 4.09 · 33,096 ratings · 4,259 reviews · 53 distinct works • Similar authors

	Heaven and Hell 4.16 avg rating — 7,052 ratings — published 2007 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Philip Roughton (Translator) 3.98 avg rating — 6,013 ratings — published 2005 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	حزن الملائكة 4.28 avg rating — 2,825 ratings — published 2009 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Absence is Darkness by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Philip Roughton (Translator) 4.23 avg rating — 2,728 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fish Have No Feet by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Philip Roughton (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 2,756 ratings — published 2013 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storia di Ásta by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Silvia Cosimini (Translator) 4.16 avg rating — 2,520 ratings — published 2017 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hjarta mannsins 4.39 avg rating — 1,938 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crepitio di stelle by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Silvia Cosimini (Translator) 3.88 avg rating — 1,866 ratings — published 2003 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Veľké asi ako vesmír by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Zuzana Stankovitsová (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 1,033 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yellow Submarine by Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Marcel Otten (translator) 3.92 avg rating — 753 ratings — published 2022 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Heaven and Hell Trilogy (3 books)
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“The hours are numerous and the clock seldom measures the time that passes inside us, the real lifetime, and because of this many days can fit into a few hours, and vice versa, and numbers of years can be an imprecise measure of a man's lifetime, he who dies at forty has perhaps actually lived much longer than he who dies at ninety.”
― Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Himnaríki og helvíti

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“...o Inferno é ter braços mas ninguém a quem abraçar.”
― Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Himnaríki og helvíti

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“He wants to accomplish something in life, learn languages, see the world, read a thousand books, he wants to discover whether there is any core, but sometimes it's hard to think and read when one is stiff and sore after a difficult fishing voyage, wet and cold after twelve hours' working in the meadows, when his thoughts can be so heavy that he can hardly lift them, then it's a long way to the core.”
― Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Himnaríki og helvíti

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