Halldór Laxness
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Halldór Kiljan Laxness 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
Laxness in 1955
Halldór Laxness by Einar Hákonarson, 1984
Iceland's Bell (novel)
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Iceland's Bell is a historical novel by Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author Halldór Kiljan Laxness. It was published in three parts: Iceland's Bell, The Bright Jewel or The Fair Maiden and Fire in Co
Halldór Laxness
…eventually acquitted when the copyright law was deemed a violation of the freedom of the press. Laxness's "epic" three-part work of historical fiction, Íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell), was published between 1943 and 1946. It has been described as a novel of broad "geographical and political scope… expressly concerned…
1943 edition