Gunnar Gunnarsson

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Anniversary information added.		May 14, 2024
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Mar 11, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Nov 17, 2023
	Add new Web site: The New York Times - Gunnar Gunnarsson, 86, dies; a Leading Novelist of Iceland.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Apr 03, 2018
	Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jun 27, 2003
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998