Halldór Laxness
- Halldór Kiljan Laxness
- Halldór Guðjónsson
- Sort Name
- Laxness, Halldór
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1902-04-23
- Place of birth
- Reykjavík
- Date of death
- 1998-02-08
- Place of death
- Reykjavík
Wikipedia
Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Icelandic: [ˈhaltour ˈcʰɪljan ˈlaksnɛs] ; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Writers who influenced Laxness include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernest Hemingway.
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- Halldór Laxness wrote Hið ljósa man
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- 2025-11-08