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Halldór Laxness

Writing

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Movies: 5Series: 1Crew credits: 5

TMDB ID: 1201817

IMDb ID: nm0493433

Known for: Writing

Born: April 23, 1902

Died: February 8, 1998

Age: 95

Place of birth: Reykjavik, Iceland

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1954 - 1999

Years active: 46

Wikidata: Q80321

Also known as

Halldór Kiljan Laxness • Halldór Guðjónsson

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Writer (3)Novel (2)

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.

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