HALLDÓR LAXNESS.
A biography of Nobel Laureates Halldór Laxness is presented. He was born on April 23, 1902 in Reykjavík, Iceland under the name of Halldór Gudjónsson and attend his formal education at Reykjavík's Latin School. His individual style filled with lyrical quality that affects the prose writing in Icelan...
| Published in: | Giants in Their Field: An Introduction to the Nobel Prizes in Literature pp. 362 - 365 |
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| Format: | Biography |
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Digitalia Publishing Corp.
1993
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| Summary: | A biography of Nobel Laureates Halldór Laxness is presented. He was born on April 23, 1902 in Reykjavík, Iceland under the name of Halldór Gudjónsson and attend his formal education at Reykjavík's Latin School. His individual style filled with lyrical quality that affects the prose writing in Iceland. He became the first author from Iceland that has been awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature. A selection of his published work in Literature is also presented. |
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