[1] He attended Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík and then studied German, literature and history of art at the University of Vienna.
[1] Þorgeir also directed radio broadcasts, wrote fiction, poetry and essays, and translated a range of works into Icelandic.
[1] He became known as a writer with his novel Yfirvaldið (The Authority, 1973), about a criminal case in 19th-century Iceland,[4] which was nominated for the 1975 Nordic Council's Literature Prize.
He was prosecuted and on 16 June 1986 found guilty under article 108 of the General Penal Code of 1940 of defamation of a civil servant, and fined 10,000 krónur; on 20 October 1987 the Supreme Court rejected his appeal.
[1][10] In 1999 Þorgeir's spelling of his patronymic with one 's' rather than the conventional Þorgeirsson was officially recognised by the Icelandic civil registry after almost seven years, during which he had not voted in elections.