Halld%C3%B3r Laxness

Halldr Kiljan Laxness born Halldr GujnssonApril 1902 February 1998 was a twentiethcentury Icelandic writer. Laxness wrote poetry, newspaper articles, plays, travelogues, short stories, and novels. Major influences included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. He received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature he is the only Icelandic Nobel laureate.

Halldr was born in 1902 in Reykjavk, where he lived until 1905 when his family moved to a farm near the town of Mosfellsbr. At a young age he started to read books and write stories. In the winter of 19151916 he attended the technical school in Reykjavk. In 1916 he had an article published in the newspaper Morgunblai. His first book, the novel Barn nttrunnar starsaga , was published in 1919 when Halldr was seventeen years old. At the time of the novels publication he had already begun his travels on the European continent.

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