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Halldor Laxness

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Feb 8, 1998
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
ReykjavikIceland
About
An Icelandic author and the 1955 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, he is best known for such novels as The Atom Station, Iceland's Bell, and The Fish Can Sing. He also published several memoirs, plays, travelogues, and short story collections.
Family
His daughter, Guony Halldorsdottir, became an award-winning filmmaker.

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