Halldór Laxness
Age: N/A | From: Reykjavik, Iceland
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Halldór Kiljan Laxness , Halldór Guðjónsson
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Reykjavik, Iceland
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Movie Involvements: 4
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Under the Glacier
(1989) Novel
The Honour of the House
(1999) Writer
Salka Valka
(1954) Writer
The Fish Can Sing
(1973) NovelActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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| 1973 | N/A | |
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Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Writer | |
| 1989 | Novel | |
| 1973 | Novel | |
| 1954 | Writer | |
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