List of Famous people with last name Laxness

Halldór Laxness

Halldór Guðjónsson

First Name Halldór

Born on April 23, 1902

Died on February 8, 1998 (aged 95)

Born in Iceland, Capital Region

Halldór Kiljan Laxness 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. Major influences included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway.

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