# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:46:09.595Z

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name: "Halldór Laxness"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Halldór Guðjónsson on 23 April 1902, he later took the name Laxness and spent decades turning Iceland's landscape and spirit into prose. He wrote across forms — novels, poetry, plays, essays, newspaper articles, travelogues, short stories — drawing on influences as varied as August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernest Hemingway. In 1955 the Nobel committee gave him the prize in Literature. He died on 8 February 1998, leaving behind a body of work that made a small island's voice heard everywhere.