Pétur Gunnarsson

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

Pétur Gunnarsson is an Icelandic writer born in Reykjavík on 15 June 1947. He received his Master's Degree (maîtrise) in Philosophy at Aix-Marseille University in 1975. He is best known as a novelist but has also translated several works of French literature (including Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust and Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes tropiques) and written song lyrics, plays, poetry, and screenplays. He received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Falcon in January 2011.

Pétur Gunnarsson lives in Reykjavík with his wife Hrafnhildur Ragnarsdóttir. They have two grown sons.

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