Thor Vilhjálmsson
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Iceland
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ic writer. He was born in Edinburgh
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, Scotland
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. Over the course of his life Vilhjálmsson wrote novels, plays and poetry and also did translations. In 1988 he won the Nordic Council Literature Prize for his novel Justice Undone
Justice Undone
Justice Undone is a novel by Icelandic author Thor Vilhjálmsson. It was first published in 1986. In 1988, Thor won the Nordic Council Literature Prize for the book.It was translated to English in 1998 by Bernard Scudder....
(Icelandic: Grámosinn glóir).