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Icelandic author (born )

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Jón Kalman.

Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 17 December ) is an Icelandic author.

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Biography

Jón Kalman was born in Reykjavík. He grew up there and in Keflavík. From to , he lived in western Iceland, where he worked different jobs after finishing high school.

From to , he studied literature at the University of Iceland, but did not pass an important exam.

During this time, Stefánsson taught courses at high schools and wrote articles for the Icelandic newspaper Morgunblaðið.

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Between and , he lived off various jobs in Copenhagen, Denmark. Afterwards he returned to Iceland and worked as a librarian for the Municipal Library in Mosfellsbær. Since then, he has been living as an independent author in Iceland.

In his novel Fish Have No Feet was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize.^[1]