Halldór Laxness
Born: 1902-04-23 in Reykjavik, Iceland
Died: 1998-02-08
Known For: Writing
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Halldór Laxness, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1999
- The Honour of the House ... (Writer)
1989
- Under the Glacier ... (Novel)
1973
1962
- Halldór Kiljan Laxness as Self (archive footage)
1954
- Salka Valka ... (Writer)