Halldór Laxness
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- April 23, 1902, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Died
- February 8, 1998
- Movies
- 4
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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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1973 | The Fish Can Sing | |
| 1962 | Halldór Kiljan Laxness | Self (archive footage) |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1999 | The Honour of the House | Writer |
| 1954 | Salka Valka | Writer |
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