Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Born
April 23, 1902
Died
February 8, 1998 (age 95)
Place of Birth
Reykjavik, Iceland
Also Known As
Halldór Kiljan Laxness
Halldór Guðjónsson
Halldór Laxness
Biography
Halldór Kiljan Laxness (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 included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway.
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