Halldór Laxness

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1902-04-23

Deathday 1998-02-08 (95 years old)

Place of Birth Reykjavik, Iceland

Also Known As Halldór Kiljan Laxness, Halldór 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Halldór Laxness, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Writer

1989
1973
1954
Salka Valka

as Writer

Actor

1962
Halldór Kiljan Laxness

as Self (archive footage)