laxness

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Gunnarsson wrote mostly in Danish and was translated into Icelandic by Laxness.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2022

Laxness explores Salka’s inner life and the social and economic circumstances of the village as both change over the course of about 20 years.

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 2022

In 2021, she was awarded the Halldór Laxness International Literary Prize for her contribution to "the renewal of the art of storytelling".

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2021

It was based on the four-volume novel of the same name by Halldór Laxness, Iceland’s greatest writer and its only Nobel Prize laureate.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2016

Laxness in the care of one's room may mean the habit of laxness in other and more important ways.

From A Girl's Student Days and After by Woolley, Mary Emma