Halldór Laxness

Writer

April 23, 1902 — February 8, 1998 (95 years)
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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Known For

  • Under the Glacier
    Under the Glacier1989
  • Salka Valka
    Salka Valka1954
  • The Atomic Station
    The Atomic Station1984

Filmography