Halldór Laxness

Halldór Guðjónsson was born on 23 April 1902 in Reykjavík and grew up at Laxnes, a farm in Mosfellssveit whose name he would take. He travelled in Europe from the age of seventeen, stayed in 1922 at the Benedictine abbey of Clervaux, in Luxembourg, and in 1923 received Catholic baptism, adding to his name that of Saint Kilian. In America, from 1927 to 1929, he turned to socialism; Upton Sinclair helped him out of legal proceedings. Back in Iceland in 1930, he went to the Soviet Union in 1938, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955, wrote several books of memoirs and died on 8 February 1998.

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