photo Halldór Laxness

Halldór Laxness

Prize: Nobel Prize in Literature — 1955

for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland

Citizenship: Iceland
Languages: Icelandic
date of birth: 4/23/1902
place of birth: Reykjavík
date of death: 2/8/1998
place of death: Mosfellsbær
Lived: 95 years

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occupation: philosopher
novelist
linguist
writer
poet
translator
playwright
work location: Iceland

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