1902
Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)
Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)
Halldór Laxness
Icelandic author (1902–1998)
- Born
- 1902
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.