laxness

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Laxness inspired but he also cast a shadow, and if you had been an aspiring writer in Iceland in the ’40s or ’50s, or even the ’60s, you would probably have felt both.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2022

Laxness was prolific — he wrote 22 novels, as well as stories, plays, poetry and travelogues.

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

Halldór Kiljan Laxness was born in 1902 in Reykjavík.

From Seven Icelandic Short Stories by Steingrímur J. Þorsteinsson