Halld�r Kiljan Laxness was a twentieth-century Icelandic writer. Throughout his career Laxness wrote poetry, newspaper articles, plays, travelogues, short stories, and novels. Major influences on his writings include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. He received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature; he is the only Icelandic Nobel laureate. Laxness was born under the name Halld�r Gu�j�nsson in Reykjav�k, the son of Gu�j�n Helgason and Sigr��ur Halld�rsd�ttir. 

April 23rd, 1902 in Reykjavik as Halldór Guðjónsson  /  Died:   Feb 8th, 1998