Halldór Laxness (1908-98) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth-century, he wrote more than sixty books. Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.
Halldór Laxness is the undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and was recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here is where to start reading his remarkable body of work.
