Novelist Halldor Laxness

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Halldor Laxness

Living place: Reykjavik

Birthday: 23-4-1902

Global rank: #55261

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Who is Novelist Halldor Laxness?
An Icelandic author and recipient of the 1955 Nobel Prize for Literature, he is known for such novels as Atom Station, Iceland's Bell, and Sing Individuals. He also published several memoirs, plays, travelogues, and short story collections.
He was blacklisted in the United States after writing a satirical novel, Atom Station, about the aftermath of the atomic bomb.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He published his first articles in local newspapers when he was fourteen years old.

Family life info

His daughter, Guony Hilmarsdottir, became an award-winning filmmaker.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist Halldor Laxness?
In 1941, he translated Ernest Hemingway's famous work, A Farewell to Arms, into the Icelandic language.

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When was Novelist Halldor Laxness born?
Halldor Laxness was born in 23-4-1902, death year is , at the age of 122.
Where is Novelist Halldor Laxness's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Halldor Laxness was born in Reykjavik, of Iceland. is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Tiger. Halldor Laxness's global rank is 55261 and whose rank is 466 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1902 and 23-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Halldor Laxness

  • Enrico Caruso makes his first gramophone recording.
  • Aswan Dam is completed in central Egypt, becoming the chief means of storing irrigation water for the Nile valley.
  • Cuba gains independence from Spain.

Birthday Halldor Laxness (23-4) in history

  • Day 23-4 year 1616: Great Britain's playwright William Shakespeare passed away aged 52 in Stratford-on-Avon, England.
  • Day 23-4 year 1954: Hank Aaron hit the first of his 755 home runs.
  • Day 23-4 year 1969: Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death (later reduced to a life sentence) for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
  • Day 23-4 year 1985: Coca-Cola announced that it was changing its formula and introduced New Coke.
  • Day 23-4 year 1998: James Earl Ray, convicted of assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., died.
  • Day 23-4 year 2004: The U.S. resumed diplomatic relations with Libya.
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