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The page of Laxness, Halldór Kiljan, English biography

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Laxness, Halldór Kiljan
(Halldór Guðjónsson)
(1902–1998)
1955

Biography

Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was a twentieth-century Icelandic writer. Throughout his career Laxness wrote poetry, newspaper articles, plays, travelogues, short stories, and novels. Major influences included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. He received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature; he is the only Icelandic Nobel laureate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halld%C3%B3r_Laxness

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