KAMBAN, GUÐMUNDUR

gvüthˈmüntür kämˈbän, 1888–1945, Icelandic dramatist and novelist. Many of Kamban's plays, among them Hadda-Padda (1914, tr. 1917), were produced in Denmark. His spirited and erudite historical novels, based upon the Icelandic sagas, include Skalholt (4 vol., 1930–32; tr. of Vol. I and II, The Virgin of Skalholt, 1935) and I See a Wondrous Land (1936, tr. 1938).

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books on: Kamban GuDmundur  - 5 results

 
 
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Encyclopedia of Literature
Book by Joseph T. Shipley; Philosophical Library, 1946
Subjects: Literature--Dictionaries, Indexes, Etc, Literature--History And Criticism
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World Drama from Aeschylus to Anouilh
Book by Allardyce Nicoll; Harcourt Brace, 1950
Subjects: Drama--History And Criticism
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Theatre Companies of the World - Vol. 2
Book by Colby H. Kullman, William C. Young; Greenwood Press, 1986
Subjects: Theater--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc
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A History of Danish Literature
Book by Sven H. Rossel; University of Nebraska Press, 1992
Subjects: Danish Literature--History And Criticism, Fiction
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Theatre Companies of the World - Vol. 1
Book by Colby H. Kullman, William C. Young; Greenwood Press, 1986
Subjects: Fiction, Theater--Handbooks, Manuals, Etc


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journal articles on: Kamban GuDmundur  - 2 results

 
 
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William T. Vollmann's the Ice-Shirt: Updating Icelandic Traditions
Journal article by Peter Christiansen; Critique, Vol. 38, 1996
Subjects: Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism
...The Danish I See A Wondrous Land ( 1936 ) by Gudmundur Kamban also novelizes the discovery of Vinland, and it...Saga . 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1986 . Kamban, Gudmundur. I See a Wondrous Land . New York: Putnam...
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The World of Halldór Laxness
Journal article by Sigurúour A. Magnússon; World Literature Today, Vol. 66, 1992
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
...Icelanders to achieve an international reputation wrote in Danish: the dramatists Johann Sigurjonsson (1880-1919) and Gudmundur Kamban (1888-1945), and the novelist Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889-1975). There was also the Jesuit scholar and teacher Jon...


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