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Kristján Karlsson
August 5, 2014
Poet and writer (1922–2014)
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Kristian Karlsson is an Icelandic writer and poet. He was born in Iceland, and after completing high school in 1942, he immigrated to the United States to study English literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated in 1945. He then immigrated to New York to study comparative literature at Columbia University, where he graduated in 1947.
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