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4 de jul. de 2022 · The Rediscovery of Halldór Laxness. A long eclipse for Iceland’s greatest novelist has been followed by a continuing renaissance. By Salvatore Scibona. July 4, 2022. It is impossible to...
Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Icelandic: [ˈhaltour ˈcʰɪljan ˈlaksnɛs] ⓘ; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories.
6 de jun. de 2022 · A new translation of “Salka Valka,” by Halldor Laxness, is a compelling story of a determined woman who has to make it on her own in a small fishing village.
17 de jul. de 2022 · Halldór Laxness, Iceland’s virtuosic Nobel Laureate in Literature, is having something of a renaissance in the United States, reports The New Yorker. The revival has been a long one, with the novelist’s early success in America stymied by those opposed to his outspoken political beliefs—not least nefarious FBI director J ...
Through two wives, more children than Laxness could count, some stillborn, but all dying in one way or another, Laxness assures us. Bjartur remains resolute in his beliefs. And so we learn about Iceland's winters, and her nascent politics.
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Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly.
24 de ene. de 2022 · 2022 marks 120 years since the birth of Halldór Laxness, the undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature. To mark the anniversary, here is where to start reading his remarkable body of work.
