Halldor laxness biography of alberta
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Halldour Laxness
| Icelandic writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955 Date of Birth: 23.04.1902 Country: Iceland |
Biography of Haldor Laxness
Haldor Kiljan Laxness, born Haldor Gudjonsson, was an Icelandic writer and the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955.
He was born in Reykjavik to Gudjon Helgi Helgason, a road inspector, and Singridur Haldorsdottir. When he was three years old, his family moved to a farm called Laxness, which means "salmon peninsula" and later became his pseudonym.
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As a child, Laxness listened to his father telling Icelandic sagas and read epic poetry from their family library. His father also taught him to play the violin, and Laxness attended school and music lessons in Reykjavik.
Even as a schoolboy, Laxness secretly wrote romantic stories, one of which, the novella "Child of Nature" ("Barn natturunnar"), was published in 1919 under the pseudonym Haldor fra Laxnesi.
After his father's death in 1919, Laxness travel