Halldór Laxness
Icelandic author (1902-1998)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Icelandic novelist who picked up the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. Laxness churned out everything from novels to plays to newspaper columns, absorbing influences from Strindberg to Hemingway along the way.
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Halldór Kiljan Laxness 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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