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Halldór Laxness

1902 - 1998

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Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Icelandic: [ˈhaltour ˈcʰɪljan ˈlaksnɛs] ; 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 include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernest Hemingway. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Halldór Laxness is the 191st most popular writer (up from 245th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Iceland (up from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Icelander Writer.

Halldór Laxness is most famous for his novel, Independent People, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.

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Among writers, Halldór Laxness ranks 191 out of 7,302. Before him are Taras Shevchenko, Murasaki Shikibu, Lope de Vega, John Steinbeck, Adam Mickiewicz, and Sigrid Undset. After him are Petronius, Georges Simenon, Tove Jansson, Fuzûlî, Johannes V. Jensen, and Menander.

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Among people born in 1902, Halldór Laxness ranks 9. Before him are Karl Popper, Georgy Malenkov, Erik Erikson, Leni Riefenstahl, John Steinbeck, and Carl Rogers. After him are Paul Dirac, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Eugene Wigner, Kurt Alder, Saud of Saudi Arabia, and Fernand Braudel. Among people deceased in 1998, Halldór Laxness ranks 4. Before him are Pol Pot, Akira Kurosawa, and Frank Sinatra. After him are Alan Hodgkin, Jean Marais, Allan MacLeod Cormack, Vasily Arkhipov, Todor Zhivkov, Ernst Jünger, Vladimir Prelog, and Carlos Castaneda.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Halldór Laxness ranks 2 out of 190. Before him are Leif Erikson (970). After him are Thorfinn Karlsefni (1000), Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (1930), Snorri Sturluson (1179), Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (1942), Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (1943), Ari Thorgilsson (1067), Halla Margrét Árnadóttir (1964), Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir (1000), Björk (1965), and Ásgeir Ásgeirsson (1894).

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Among WRITERS In Iceland

Among writers born in Iceland, Halldór Laxness ranks 1. After him are Snorri Sturluson (1179), Egill Skallagrímsson (904), Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889), Arnaldur Indriðason (1961), Magnús Scheving (1964), Jón Arason (1484), Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614), Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807), Matthías Jochumsson (1835), Yrsa Sigurðardóttir (1963), and Sæmundr fróði (1056).

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