Halldór Laxness
Writing
- Born
- April 23, 1902 · Reykjavik, Iceland
- Died
- February 8, 1998 (age 95)
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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Known for
Behind the camera4
- 1999The Honour of the House Writer
- 1989Under the Glacier Novel
- 1973The Fish Can Sing Novel
- 1954Salka Valka Writer
Acting2
- 1973The Fish Can Sing
- 1962Halldór Kiljan Laxness as Self (archive footage)