Birth and Life
Halldór Laxness
writer
| Date of birth |
23. 4. 1902 |
| Country of birth |
Iceland |
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Work, awards, recognitions, ...
Nobel Prize in Literature 1955
Death
Details:
His grave is in a small cemetery next to a church which has a direct view of his house in Gljúfrasteinn, Iceland (some 15 km outside Reykjavik).
Summary from Wikipedia
Halldór Guðjónsson was born in Reykjavík in 1902. When he was three, his family moved to the Laxnes farm in Mosfellssveit parish.[4] He was brought up and enormously influenced by his grandmother, who "sang me ancient songs before I could talk, told me stories from heathen times and sang me cradle songs from the Catholic era".[5] He started to read books and write stories at an early age and attended the technical school in Reykjavík from 1915 to 1916. His earliest published writings appeared in 1916 in Morgunblaðið and in the children's periodical Æskan.[6] The ...
Author of contribution: Janez, published 22. 12. 2015
