laxness

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Embedded in the pavement in front of it is a plaque dedicated to the Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, who was born there on April 23, 1902.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2022

One of my favorites of these is Halldor Laxness, who was born in 1902 and died in 1998, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.

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 was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1955.

From Seven Icelandic Short Stories by Steingrímur J. Þorsteinsson