Laxness

American

[lahks-nes] / ˈlɑks nɛs /

noun

Halldór Kiljan 1902–98, Icelandic writer: Nobel Prize 1955.

Laxness British

/ ˈlaxsnɛs /

noun

Halldór ( Kiljan ) (haldəʊr). 1902–98, Icelandic novelist, noted for his treatment of rural working life in Iceland. His works include Salka Valka (1932) and Independent People (1935). Nobel prize for literature 1955

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Embedded in the pavement in front of it is a plaque dedicated to the Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, who was born there on April 23, 1902.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2022

Her story is long and somber, but Laxness is adept at putting in some amusing observations.

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

Laxness in the care of one's room may mean the habit of laxness in other and more important ways.

From A Girl's Student Days and After by Woolley, Mary Emma

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