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    Halldór Guðmundsson. 2004. Halldór Laxness. (Reykjavík: JPV) Wikiquote has quotations related to Halldór Laxness. Gljúfrasteinn, the Halldór Laxness Museum...
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  • Biography of Halldór Laxness (Original title Ævisaga Halldórs Kiljans Laxness) was published in Iceland from 2003. It is a biography of novelist and Nobel...
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  • video. Halldór is the son of filmmakers Guðný Halldórsdóttir and Halldór Þorgeirsson and grandson of writer and Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness and writer...
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  • Halldór Laxness is an album released by the Icelandic musical group Mínus. It was recorded and mixed in Studio Sýrland, Iceland, by Ken Thomas and Curver...
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  • Independent People (category Novels by Halldór Laxness)
    An Epic (Icelandic: Sjálfstætt fólk) is a novel by Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, originally published in two volumes in 1934 and 1935. It deals with...
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  • Look up Halldór in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Halldór (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈhalːˌtouːr̥]) or Halldor is a given name. Notable people with the...
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  • The Atom Station (category Novels by Halldór Laxness)
    Atom Station (Icelandic: Atómstöðin) is a novel by Icelandic author Halldór Laxness, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955. The initial...
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    Halldór Laxness – both authors were eventually awarded. Hemingway was a favourite to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 along with Halldór...
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    The Great Weaver from Kashmir (category Novels by Halldór Laxness)
    Kashmir (Icelandic: Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmír) is the third novel by Halldór Kiljan Laxness, published in 1927 by the Reykjavík publisher Forlagið. The theme...
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  • The Fish Can Sing (category Novels by Halldór Laxness)
    (Icelandic: Brekkukotsannáll) is a 1957 novel by Icelandic author Halldór Laxness, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955. The novel is...
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  • Sigurðsson in his English language debut. Co-written by the director with Halldór Laxness Halldórsson and Tobias Munthe, the film stars Timothy Spall and Lydia...
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  • Gerpla (category Novels by Halldór Laxness)
    Gerpla is a 1952 Icelandic novel by Halldór Laxness based on the Old Icelandic Fóstbræðra saga. 1954. Gerpla. Translated by Ingegerd Nyberg Fries. Stockholm:...
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  • it is based on a book by the Icelandic Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness. Partial list films strongly related to Iceland while not produced...
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    Several Reykjavík writers have received international and Nordic awards. Halldór Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955 for "vivid epic...
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    family names; one Icelander to do so was the Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness, while another author, Einar Hjörleifsson, and his brothers chose the...
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    Island of Missing Trees, shortlisted for the Costa Book Award, 2021; Halldór Laxness International Literature Prize, 2021; The Island of Missing Trees,...
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    1955 Nobel Prize in Literature (category Halldór Laxness)
    old and new..." Halldór Laxness wrote novels, poetry, journalism, essays and plays. The conventional Icelandic saga influenced Laxness, best known for...
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  • [citation needed] Iceland has produced many great authors including Halldór Laxness, Guðmundur Kamban, Tómas Guðmundsson, Davíð Stefánsson, Jón Thoroddsen...
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    being given the name "Nábrókarstafur". The stave is mentioned in Halldór Laxness's historic novel, Íslandsklukkan ("Iceland's Bell" 1943) where a character...
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  • Guðný Halldórsdóttir (category Halldór Laxness)
    winner Halldór Laxness, while her mother was writer and textile designer Auður Laxness. Her son is rapper, actor and comedian Halldór Laxness Halldórsson...
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  • mid-20th century. Her husband was Icelandic Nobel Literature laureate Halldór Laxness, and Auður worked as his secretary and writing collaborator for many...
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    [ˈklju(v)raˌsteitn̥]) is a writer's home museum, which was the former home of Halldór Kiljan Laxness, a 1955 Nobel Prize for Literature winner. It is located in Mosfellsbær...
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    1955 Willis Lamb; Polykarp Kusch Vincent du Vigneaud Hugo Theorell Halldór Laxness None 1956 John Bardeen; Walter Houser Brattain; William Shockley Cyril...
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    Olivier (1966) Willem Visser 't Hooft (1967) Arthur Koestler (1968) Halldór Laxness (1969) Max Tau (1970) Danilo Dolci (1971) Karl Popper (1973) Hannah...
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    especially, of fatalism is, however, a matter of scholarly contention. Halldór Laxness argued that the saga is primarily a book about the fatalism inherent...
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  • the party and their positions before being tried.[citation needed] Halldór Laxness, the Icelandic author, was present at the trial and described it in...
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    Cold War. Bjarni was caricatured by the Nobel prize winning writer Halldór Laxness in his 1948 play Atómstöðin (The Atom Station). In 1956, when the left-wing...
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  • Halldór Laxness—ævisaga. Reykjavík: JPV, 2004. ISBN 9979-781-61-0. English ed. trans. Philip Roughton: The Islander: A Biography of Halldór Laxness....
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    Olivier (1966) Willem Visser 't Hooft (1967) Arthur Koestler (1968) Halldór Laxness (1969) Max Tau (1970) Danilo Dolci (1971) Karl Popper (1973) Hannah...
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    Olivier (1966) Willem Visser 't Hooft (1967) Arthur Koestler (1968) Halldór Laxness (1969) Max Tau (1970) Danilo Dolci (1971) Karl Popper (1973) Hannah...
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