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Something wrong?The Icelander who turned his country's sagas and soil into a Nobel Prize, writing everything from novels to travelogues with a style sharpened by Strindberg, Hemingway, and Brecht.
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Besuch vom isländischen Schriftsteller Halldor Laxness im Rathaus (Kiel 54.705)
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Memortabulo pri Halldór Laxness sur trotuaro en Rejkjaviko
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Salka valka deutsch 1951In their own words 10
, People who like to display complicated technique in their verse are more given to pride themselves on their work than are those who write for their own solace.
He swore repeatedly, ever the more violently the unsteadier his legs became, but to steel his senses he kept his mind fixed persistently on the world-famous battles of the rhymes.
Never did these thanes of hell escape their just deserts. No one ever heard of Harekur or Gongu-Hrolfur or Bernotus being worsted in the final struggle.
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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.
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