Halldór Laxness
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 include
August Strindberg,
Sigmund Freud,
Knut Hamsun,
Sinclair Lewis,
Upton Sinclair,
Bertolt Brecht, and
Ernest Hemingway.
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