Halldór Laxness

Person · Open Library

Born

1902

Died

1998

Works

285

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Film & TV

Writing · Reykjavik, Iceland

Halldór Kiljan Laxness (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. Writers who influenced Laxness included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest…

Known for

• The Fish Can Sing1973
• The Fish Can Sing1973
• Halldór Kiljan Laxness — Self (archive footage)1962

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Iceland

Active from

1902

Active to

1998

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

120

Total plays

1,860

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SignalP 6.0 predicts all five types of signal peptides using protein language models

   · 2022 · cited 2,820x

2. Pharmaceutical pollution of the world’s rivers

   · 2022 · cited 1,405x

3. Segmented lateral dyke growth in a rifting event at Bárðarbunga volcanic system, Iceland

   · 2014 · cited 497x

4. Intrusion triggering of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull explosive eruption

   · 2010 · cited 371x

5. Fatal landslides in Europe

   · 2016 · cited 369x

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Quotes

• “People who like to display complicated technique in their verse are more given to pride themselves on their work than are those who write for their own solace.”
• “He swore repeatedly, ever the more violently the unsteadier his legs became, but to steel his senses he kept his mind fixed persistently on the world-famous battles of the rhymes. He recited the most powerful passages one after another over and over again, dwelling especially on the devilish heroes, Grimur Ægir and Andri. It was Grimur he was fighting now, he thought . . . but now an end would be put to the deadly feud, for now the stage was set for the final struggle.”
• “Never did these thanes of hell escape their just deserts. No one ever heard of Harekur or Gongu-Hrolfur or Bernotus being worsted in the final struggle. In the same way no one will be able to say that Bjartur of Summerhouses ever got the worst of it in his world war with the country's specters, no matter how often he might tumble over a precipice or roll head over heels down a gully - "while there's a breath left in my nostrils, it will never keep me down, no matter how hard it blows."”
• “Slowly, slowly winter day opens his arctic eye.”
• “Never do hymns seem so long as in the days of childhood, never is their world and their language so alien to the soul. In old age the opposite is true, the hours are then too short for the hymns.”
• “He wandered away, weeping, away from the farm and up to the rocks at the foot of the mountain, quite overpowered by the evil that seems so often to prevail in life and even to rule it. But what do you think he heard from the rocks at the foot of the mountain? Why, he heard the most delightful singing!”

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🏅Nobel Prize

• The Nobel Prize in Literature1955

  “for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland”