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Halldor Laxness

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on November 29, 2009 at 11:24:37 am
 

Halldor Laxness


Halldor Laxness is an author, who like many authors has died.  Some people think he looked like this:

 

Books


The list is not complete, and for now only has books that are in print and translated in English.

 

Novels:

 

Books About Halldor Laxness

 

 

Links


 

 

The Great Weaver From Reykjavik

An article discussing the life and works of Halldor Laxness.  Also, pictures.

 

Nobel Banquet Speech

A speech given by Laxness.  Available as text (in Swedish and English), or audio recording (only Swedish).

 

Halldor Laxness and The CIA 

An article discussing the blacklisting of Laxness, and the FBI and CIA's interest in the Icelandic author.

 

Video 


In Icelandic: 

 

Some people thought he was interesting enough to make a documentary about him and then someone thought the documentary interesting enough to put on youtube in three parts.  Unfortunately no one has found it interesting enough to translate into English:

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Here is a video of two hands playing a haunting song on the piano, while someone sings in Icelandic.  The words were written by Halldor Laxness.

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