laxness

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Later, he translated some of his novels himself, but Laxness turned out to be a better Gunnarsson in Icelandic than Gunnarsson himself.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2022

In 2021, she was awarded the Halldór Laxness International Literary Prize for her contribution to "the renewal of the art of storytelling".

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2021

Reykjavik is both a gossipy town and a literary hotspot — everyone knows where Halldor Laxness lives and keeps an eye out for him.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2020

It was based on the four-volume novel of the same name by Halldór Laxness, Iceland’s greatest writer and its only Nobel Prize laureate.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2016

Gunnar Gunnarsson wrote The Church on the Mountain, and Laxness was becoming known.

From Seven Icelandic Short Stories by Steingrímur J. Þorsteinsson