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

One of my favorites of these is Halldor Laxness, who was born in 1902 and died in 1998, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.

From Washington Post • Jun. 6, 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

The classics I mean to bring – Laxness, Chekhov – will stay on the shelf.

From The Guardian • Jul. 9, 2017

Laxness in the care of one's room may mean the habit of laxness in other and more important ways.

From A Girl's Student Days and After by Woolley, Mary Emma