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)

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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