Halld r Laxness was born near Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1902. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction, and one of the outstanding novelists of the century, he has written more than 60 books, including novels, short stories, essays, poems, plays, and memoirs. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1998.
“Laxness has genuine magic as a novelist.” –New York Herald
Tribune
“Laxness is a poet who writes to the edge of the pages, a visionary
who allows us a plot: He takes a Tolstoyan overview, he weaves in
an Evelyn Waugh-like humor; it is not possible to be unimpressed.”
–Daily Telegraph
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