Halldór Laxness
Personal information
- Known for
- Сценарий
- Known credits
- 6
- Gender
- Мужской
- Born
- 23 апреля 1902 г.
- Died
- 8 февраля 1998 г.
- Place of birth
- Reykjavik, Iceland
- Also known as
- Halldór Kiljan LaxnessHalldór Guðjónsson
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.
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