Einar Bragi

Einar Bragi
Born
Einar Bragi Sigurðsson

April 7, 1921
DiedMarch 26, 2005(2005-03-26) (aged 83)
Occupationpoet, publisher, translator
LanguageIcelandic
PeriodPost-World War II
Literary movementmodernism

Einar Bragi (or Einar Bragi Sigurðsson) (7 April 1921 – 26 March 2005) was an Icelandic poet and publisher. He was a modernist who founded and edited the journal Birtingur, the leading forum for modernism in Iceland at the time.

Einar Bragi published nine books of poetry between 1950 and 1980. He is known as one of the Atom Poets. He also translated poetry into Icelandic.