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:
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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