Halldór Laxness (1902–1998)
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When presenting the 1955 Nobel Prize to Laxness, the Swedish Academy of Letters cited "his vivid writing, which has renewed the Icelandic narrative art." Laxness has been by turns a Catholic convert, a socialist, and a target of the radical press, some of whom accused Laxness of a class ambivalence toon meer the Saturday Review summarized this way: "Though Laxness came to believe that the novelist's best material is to be found in the proletariat, his rejection of middle-class concerns was never complete, and the ambiguity of his attitude toward the conflict of cultural values accounts for the mixture of humor and pathos that is characteristic of all his novels." Independent People (1934--35) was a bestseller in this country; Paradise Reclaimed Reclaimed (1960), based in part on Laxness's own experiences in the United States, is a novel about a nineteenth-century Icelandic farmer and his travels and experiences, culminating in his conversion to the Mormon church. Laxness owes much to the tradition of the sagas and writes with understated restraint, concentrating almost entirely on external details, from which he extracts the utmost in absurdity. An Atlantic writer found that The Fish Can Sing (1957), the adventures of a young man in 1900 who wants to be a singer, "simmers with an ironic, disrespectful mirth which gives unexpected dimensions to the themes of lost innocence and the nature of art." (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Eldur í Kaupinhafn = Brand i Köpenhamn : tredje delen av trilogin Islands klocka (1946) 10 exemplaren
N Tryggvadottir: Serenity and Power 6 exemplaren
Gerska æfintýrið 5 exemplaren
Ásta Sóllilja 4 exemplaren
Seiseijú, mikil ósköp 4 exemplaren
Þjóðhátíðarrolla 4 exemplaren
Dagleið á fjöllum; greinar 4 exemplaren
Prjónastofan Sólin : gamanleikur í þrem þáttum 3 exemplaren
Fuglinn í fjörunni 3 exemplaren
Heiman eg fór : sjálfsmynd œskumanns 3 exemplaren
Norðanstúlkan 2 exemplaren
Silfurtúnglið 2 exemplaren
Jóhannes S. Kjarval 2 exemplaren
Yfirskygðir staðir : ýmsar athuganir 2 exemplaren
Straumrof 2 exemplaren
Drei Erzählungen 2 exemplaren
Höll Sumarlandsins 2 exemplaren
Af skáldum 2 exemplaren
Myndir eftir Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval 2 exemplaren
Við heygarðshornið 2 exemplaren
Af menníngarástandi 2 exemplaren
Himlens skn̜hed 2 exemplaren
Napoleon Bonaparte : [novellivalimik] 2 exemplaren
Sommerlandets Slot 2 exemplaren
Thaettir 2 exemplaren
Noveller 2 exemplaren
Vettvangur dagsins; ritgerdir 2 exemplaren
Fløjtespilleren - 4 Noveller 2 exemplaren
De islandske sagaer og andre essays 2 exemplaren
Dagur i Senn 2 exemplaren
Gjorningabok 2 exemplaren
Og árin líða 1 exemplaar
Úa : Leikrit 1 exemplaar
Laxdæla Saga 1 exemplaar
Lesebuch 1 exemplaar
Nína í krafti og birtu 1 exemplaar
O întîmplare la Reykjavik 1 exemplaar
Húsakostur og híbýlaprýði 1 exemplaar
Romanzi. 1 exemplaar
Menntaskólaljóð 1 exemplaar
Thu Vinvidur Hreini 1 exemplaar
Heimsljos I-II 1 exemplaar
Kórvilla á vestfjörðum og fleiri sögur 1 exemplaar
Thjohatidarrolla 1 exemplaar
Sjálfsagðir hlutir : ritgerðir 1 exemplaar
Barn náttúrunnar (Icelandic Edition) 1 exemplaar
Dúfnaveislan : skemtunarleikur í fimm þáttum 1 exemplaar
Ásmundur Sveinsson 1 exemplaar
Islandsk saga 1 exemplaar
Opere 1 exemplaar
Gente indipendente 1 exemplaar
Utsaga 1 exemplaar
Island : intryck från ett heroiskt landskap 1 exemplaar
Syrpa úr verkum Halldórs Laxness 1 exemplaar
Upphaf mannúðarstefnu : Ritgerðir 1 exemplaar
Hús Skáldsins 1 exemplaar
Fegurð Heimsins 1 exemplaar
*ANY 1 exemplaar
Snaefridur Isalndssol 1 exemplaar
Salka Valka - L' aringa - New Iceland 1 exemplaar
Frie menn : Første del 1 exemplaar
Piplekaren : noveller 1 exemplaar
Alexandreis, það er er Alexanders saga mikla 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Laxness, Halldór
- Officiële naam
- Guthdjonsson, Halldór (birth)
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Laxness, Halldór Kiljan
- Geboortedatum
- 1902-04-23
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1998-02-08
- Graflocatie
- Mosfellskirkjugarður Mosfellsbæ, Mosfellsbaer, Höfuðborgarsvæði, Iceland
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Iceland
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Iceland
- Geboorteplaats
- Reykjavík, Danish Iceland
- Plaats van overlijden
- Reykjavík, Iceland
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- Alzheimer's disease
- Woonplaatsen
- Mosfellssveit, Iceland
- Opleiding
- Reykjavík Lyceum
- Beroepen
- novelist
screenwriter
playwright - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Nobel Prize (Literature, 1955)
World Peace Council Literary Prize (1952)
Sonning Prize (1969) - Korte biografie
- Halldor Laxness, an Icelandic author, received world-wide recognition after being awarded the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. According to the Nobel Prize committee, he received this coveted award "for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland." By 1948 he had received from literary scholars from around the world 25 nominations for the Nobel candidacy. As of 2021, he is the only Nobel Prize recipient from Iceland. During his writing career, he authored more than 60 works including novels, poems, plays, essays, short stories, memoirs, and travel books.
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July 2015: Halldor Laxness in Monthly Author Reads (juli 2015)
Group Read, June 2015: Independent People in 1001 Books to read before you die (juni 2015)
Group Read of Independent People by Halldór Laxness in Club Read 2014 (april 2014)
Ligiloj: eo.Wikipedia - epo in Esperanto! (maart 2012)
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