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Apr 23, 1902 Reykjavík, Capital Region, Iceland Died on 08 Feb 1998 (aged 95)
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About Halldór Laxness
- Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Icelandic: ['haltour 'c??ljan 'laxsn?s] (listen); 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.
- Major influences included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway.
