![]() He returned to Iceland but kept travelling a lot throughout his life. There he became attracted to socialism and got in trouble in the US for being public about that. He was influenced by expressionism in Europe and other modern currents and for a while he lived in the USA, trying to make it in Hollywood as a screenwriter. In one of his travels as a young man, he got baptised as a Catholic and adopted the middle name Kiljan and the surname Laxness. He was very well travelled, which was not common for Icelanders in those times. His first novel, Child of Nature (Barn náttúrunnar), was published in 1919 when Halldór was only 17 years old. ![]() ![]() Halldór Kiljan Laxness was an Icelandic writer, poet and a playwright and is the only Icelander ever to get the Nobel prize.īorn in Reykjavík in 1902 as Halldór Guðjónsson, Laxness started writing stories from a very early age. ![]()
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