Halldór Laxness
Personal Info:
KNOWN FOR
Writing
GENDER
male
BIRTHDAY
1902-04-23
DAY OF DEATH
1998-02-08
PLACE OF BIRTH
Reykjavik, Iceland
ALSO KNOWN AS
Halldór Kiljan LaxnessHalldór 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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POPULAR MOVIES
acting
- 1962
writing
- 1999
- 1989
- 1973
- 1954