Laxness
Americannoun
noun
Vocabulary lists containing laxness
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Later, he translated some of his novels himself, but Laxness turned out to be a better Gunnarsson in Icelandic than Gunnarsson himself.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
Laxness was prolific — he wrote 22 novels, as well as stories, plays, poetry and travelogues.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 6, 2022
In 2021, she was awarded the Halldór Laxness International Literary Prize for her contribution to "the renewal of the art of storytelling".
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2021
It was based on the four-volume novel of the same name by Halldór Laxness, Iceland’s greatest writer and its only Nobel Prize laureate.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2016
Tensity and Laxness The tensity or laxness of your muscles when you are in the presence of a prospect will suggest to him very diverse ideas.
From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.
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