Halldor laxness biography definition
Halldor Laxness Biography |
| Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson) (April 23, 1902 - February 8, 1998) was a famous 20th century Icelandic author of such novels as Independent People, The Atom Station, Paradise Reclaimed, Iceland's Bell, The Fish can Sing, and World Light. He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1955. Some facts Halldór Kiljan Laxness was the son of Sigríður Halldórsdóttir (born 1872) and Guðjón Helgason (born 1870). During his first years he lived in Reykjavík, but then he moved to Laxnes in Mosfellssveit in 1905. He soon started to read books and write stories, and when he was 14 years old he got his first article published in Morgunblaðið under the name H.G.. Not much later he published an article (about an old clock) under his name in the same paper. In his career he wrote 51 books, many newspaper articles, poems, plays, short stories and more. For a list of publications by Laxness, see Publications. He was married and ha |