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Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson) (April 23, 1902 – February 8, 1998) was a 20th century Icelandic author of such novels as Salka Valka, Independent People, The Atom Station, Paradise Reclaimed, Iceland's Bell, The Fish Can Sing and World Light. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955. When he was 14 years old, his first article was published in Morgunblaðið under the name H.G. Not much later he published an article (about an old clock) under his own name in the same paper. During his career he wrote 51 novels, poetry, many newspaper articles, plays, travelogues, short stories and more.
