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	The Great Weaver From Reykjavik
		Laxness, who won the 1955 Nobel Prize in literature, is in many ways a throwback: a novelist with the soul of an epic poet, whose broad canvases accommodate much of his homeland's embattled history and rich oral and written literary culture.
		Laxness' fascination with travel may well have been stimulated by The Vinland Sagas (stories of westward Viking voyages), and it's more than likely that his deep empathy with iconoclasts and troublemakers was influenced by the colorful figure of the outlaw antihero of Grettir's Saga (a tale replete with folklore and supernaturalism).
		Laxness, by virtue of his heritage and individual talent, is something very near to a unique figure: a compassionate, and enormously skillful chronicler of the ordinary and the everyday, whose clear-eyed gaze takes in the nimbus of "world light" (and shadow as well) that embraces, transforms, and exalts the commonplace.
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	Halldór Laxness
		Halldór Kiljan Laxness was born Halldór Gudjónsson in Reykjavík.
		In 1930 Laxness married Ingibjørg Einarsdóttir and settled in Reykjavík.
		In 1945 Laxness married Auður Sveinsdóttir, the daughter of Svenn Guðmunddson, a flsmith, and Halldóra Kristín Jónsdóttir.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /laxness.htm (1590 words)

	Coffee With Halldor Laxness \| Real Iceland
		Laxness also spoke of how one of his books was in-line to be part of a Book of the Month Club in the U.S., which would have meant significant sales and revenues.
		Laxness had a youthful fliration with socialism, and a persistent tendency of trusting no one and poking fun at people of all political persuasions.
		Laxness tells the story from the perspective of a country woman who moves to Reykjavík and becomes a maid in the household of a leading politician.
	www.real-iceland.com /Coffee-with-Halldor (680 words)

	"Under the Glacier" by Halldór Laxness - Salon
		"Under the Glacier" is set in the remote rural west of Laxness' treeless island nation, where certain women can raise the dead -- and indeed are known to arise naked from their biers after their own deaths, to bake bread for the pallbearers -- and people are sometimes turned into great salmon.
		As soon as our befuddled young man arrives at Snaefellsjökull, people begin to tell him that the glacier is said to be the center of the world and is a prodigious energy source.
		(Laxness didn't invent this belief; Snaefellsjökull today is the site of annual New Age pilgrimages.) On the other hand, maybe Embi is just wired; the serving woman in the pastor's half-abandoned house never feeds him anything but coffee and cake.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2005/03/30/laxness/index.html (988 words)

	Minus: Halldor Laxness - PopMatters Music Review
		But their follow-up record, this year's Halldor Laxness, envisions Minus distilling their hardcore aggression for a more typical take on the heavier shades of rock music with a larger palette of instruments and a heightened sense of jagged melodicism.
		Another trademark of Halldor Laxness is its fine use of electronic flourishes throughout its 44 minutes -- synths often swirl next to post-hardcore guitar transgressions and electro pulses drone in the midst of a track's breakdown.
		Halldor Laxness -- through experimenting on how to abandon its predecessor's hardcore sound spasms -- closes with a feeling of unevenness, with inequality in value and irregularity in material being its centerpiece.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/m/minus-halldor.shtml (504 words)

	"Under the Glacier" by Halldór Laxness - Salon
		"Under the Glacier" is set in the remote rural west of Laxness' treeless island nation, where certain women can raise the dead -- and indeed are known to arise naked from their biers after their own deaths, to bake bread for the pallbearers -- and people are sometimes turned into great salmon.
		As soon as our befuddled young man arrives at Snaefellsjökull, people begin to tell him that the glacier is said to be the center of the world and is a prodigious energy source.
		(Laxness didn't invent this belief; Snaefellsjökull today is the site of annual New Age pilgrimages.) On the other hand, maybe Embi is just wired; the serving woman in the pastor's half-abandoned house never feeds him anything but coffee and cake.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2005/03/30/laxness (998 words)

	Halldór Laxness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laxness’ widow has filed suit against Gissurarson for alleged plagiarism, accusing him of editing and/or re-prhasing whole passages from her late husband's works and passing them on as his own.
		Laxness was baptised and confirmed in Catholicism early in 1923.
		Laxness still manages to dig out some shred of hope and love from the abysmal rural disenfranchised powerless poverty depicted in the book, and to find some human tenderness inside the burly troll monster of the main character.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Halld%C3%B3r_Laxness (1268 words)

	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Paradise Reclaimed by Halldor Laxness Introduction by Jane Smiley
		The quixotic hero of this long-lost classic is Steinar of Hlidar, a generous but very poor man who lives peacefully on a tiny farm in nineteenth-century Iceland with his wife and two adoring young children.
		By the time the broken family is reunited, Laxness has spun his trademark blend of compassion and comically brutal satire into a moving and spellbinding enchantment, composed equally of elements of fable and folkore and of the most humble truths.
		Halldor Laxness was born in Iceland in 1902.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375727580 (185 words)

	Halldor Laxness Biography
		Halldór Kiljan Laxness was the son of Sigríður Halldórsdóttir (born 1872) and Guðjón Helgason (born 1870).
		Laxness was baptised and confirmed in Catholicism early in the year 1923.
		Laxness still manages to dig out some shred of hope and love from the abysmal rural disenfranchized powerless poverty depicted in the book, and to find some human tenderness inside the burly troll monster of the main character.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Laxness_Halldor.html (1162 words)

	Independent People (Halldór Laxness) - book review
		In his lyrical descriptions of landscapes and his feel for human relationships with them, and in his portrait of poverty and the grim struggle to stay out of debt, Laxness is reminiscent of Thomas Hardy.
		In other places he steps back and comments in Tolstoyan fashion on the politics and economics of Iceland and the nature of labour and man's place in the world — with some hints of his (communist) politics, though he is never didactic.
		It was published in two parts in 1934 and 1935; in 1955 Halldór Laxness won the Nobel Prize for Literature, "for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland".
	dannyreviews.com /h/Independent_People.html (398 words)

	Halldor Laxness - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Halldor Laxness - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		On the day the world becomes good, the poet will cease to suffer, and not before; but at the same time he will also cease to be a poet.
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	Amazon.com: Independent People: Books: Halldor Laxness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Laxness is merciless with the hypocrisy of the upper classes, as exemplified by the Bailiff's poetess wife, who applauds the simple life of poor country people, or the Bailiff's son, whose social-welfare schemes help him but undermine the crofters.
		Laxness is not easy on Bjartur, who is bloody-minded in the extreme, but he is tender enough to compose a poem to his exiled adoptive daughter, and bold enough to engrave a simple marker in honor of the misunderstood ghoul who has haunted his farm and family.
		Laxness has penned a great satire of Icelandic mores and customs, turning Bjartur into the sort of close-minded, impossibly stubborn farmer who, the more he strives for independence, the greater and tighter are the shackles that bind him.
	www.amazon.com /Independent-People-Halldor-Laxness/dp/0679767924 (3146 words)

	Halldor Kiljan Laxness Winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature
		Description of Laxness in German (submitted by Robert Raschhofer)
		Halldor Laxness Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Biography and much more (submitted by Mira Sorensen)
		Halldor Laxness Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)
	www.almaz.com /nobel/literature/1955a.html (109 words)

	Laxness the Great - The New York Review of Books
		by Halldór Laxness, translated from the Icelandic by Magnus Magnusson, with an introduction by Jane Smiley
		In the Fifties, in his fifties, the Icelandic writer Halldór Laxness entered a stretch of broad and seemingly easeful creativity.
		Or maybe the change is best understood as another phase in a protracted artistic evolution: Laxness was a peripatetic soul, both physically and artistically, whose literary career was marked by sharp veerings and departures.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/15741 (401 words)

	Independent People by Halldor Laxness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But she too wishes to live independently - and when Bjartus throws her from the house on discovering she is pregnant, her more temperate determination is set against his stony will.
		'Laxness is a poet who writes to the edges of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot: he takes a Tolstoyan overview, he weaves in an Evelyn Waugh-like humour: it is not possible to be umimpressed.' Fay Weldon on her 'Books of the Century' Daily Telegraph
		A 20th century saga and a "fanfare for the common man", discovering in a stark and unsentimental (yet profoundly compassionate) way the tragic heroism of a man pitted against the power of nature as he struggles to preserve his soul, even if he loses his life in the effort.
	www.stokenewington.net /readinggroup/books/laxness.html (277 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| Iceland's Bell by Halldor Laxness Translated by Philip Roughton
		Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland’s Bell by Nobel Laureate Halldór Laxness is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire.
		At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague.
		Halldór Laxness was born near Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1902.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400034253 (296 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Independent People (Panther): Books: Halldor Laxness,J. A. Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I bought Independent People in a second hand bookshop by chance: somehow, I had never heard of Halldor Laxness and I was attracted by a recommendation by Annie Proulx on the cover.
		Icelanders have also told me that it is linguistically very rich, and Laxness was inclined to make up his own words and constructions, making it a tough read even for the locals.
		I was never that fond of Laxness before I read Independent People, I had read a couple of his books when I was younger but I see now that I wasn't mature enough to grasp the brilliance of Laxness' writing.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Independent-People-Panther-Halldor-Laxness/dp/1860467768 (2002 words)

	Amazon.com: The Atom Station: Books: Halldor Laxness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Laxness tries to convey to us the destructiveness of globalization long before it was called by that name, the destructiveness of making a liquid market in everything, putting a price on everything, eliminating all stability formed by old tradition.
		Laxness' life that casts a shadow over his career, and is, regardless to say, quite disturbing.
		Laxness finally departed with communism, and admitted that some of his previous statements about the "better way of life" in the Soviet were slightly untrue, if not just outright lies.
	www.amazon.com /Atom-Station-Halldor-Laxness/dp/0099455153 (2176 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Halldor Laxness et al - Under The Glacier at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Halldor Laxness and Magnus Magnusson - Under The Glacier
		Halldor's novels often echo the style of the medieval Sagas (which have some pretty extreme behavior described similarly deadpan).
		Embi roles with the punches of oddness, does not display such emotions and frustrations as he feels (except within his report), He well realizes the absurdity of his position and mission and of the discussions (theological and other) that he hears, but soldiers on, even as time bends.
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	Halldór Kiljian Laxness
		’s great writer and Nobel laureate, Halldór Laxness (Halldór frá Laxnesi), born Halldór Guðjónsson in Reykjavík.
		Laxness’ work has been translated into about 30 languages.
		Click here for a bibliography, as complete as possible, of Laxness’ works in Icelandic (excluding most of those to which he contributed only partially) and English (including those to which he contributed only partially).
	www.haarsager.org /laxness (659 words)

	Exploring the Land of Halldor Laxness
		When Icelandic author Halldor Laxness passed away in February, the world lost one of its great literary giants.
		A prolific writer, Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955.
		Through his books, Halldor Laxness introduced Iceland to the rest of the world.
	suite101.com /article.cfm/european_travel/7356 (609 words)

	The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness \| PopMatters Book Review
		Nearly all of Laxness's novels hint at the contrast between the larger-than-life heroes whose mordantly humorous exploits are preserved in the Icelandic sagas, and the dingy realities of life in early 20th-century Iceland -- at that time a rural Danish colony with a sagging national self-esteem.
		Today, however, reverent bus drivers in the Icelandic countryside slow down to point out his unassuming home. Laxness saw Reykjavik grow from a hardscrabble village to a hip modern capital, and he almost single-handedly legitimized modern Icelandic literature. Foreigners are baffled; Icelanders shine with pride.
		Authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien and Jane Smiley revel in medievalism, crafting impressive modern myths with intelligence and clear devotion. But Laxness lived the legacy of the Middle Ages as only an Icelander can, in a country where nearly all literature is seen as a response to Viking sagas.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/f/fish-can-sing.shtml (623 words)

	Scandinavia House - The Nordic Center in America
		Furnished in classic Scandinavian design with huge windows overlooking Park Avenue, The Halldór Laxness Library houses information on the Nordic nations and their influence on America and the world.
		Funds for the establishment of the library were raised by a consortium of corporations and individuals in Iceland.
		At their request, the Library was named in honor of Halldór Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Laureate in Literature.
	www.scandinaviahouse.org /library.html (242 words)

	Minus - Halldor Laxness - openingbands.com
		Halldór Laxness is the third release from the post-metalcore (haha) band, Mínus.
		Speaking of which, the lyrics on Halldör Laxness can be quite entertaining, especially considering the abundance of rhyme.
		Halldor Laxness is a change of pace when almost every hardcore record is either cookie cutter metalcore or adheres to the ever popular sing-scream formula.
	www.openingbands.com /printerfriendly.race?ID=338 (571 words)

	Gljúfrasteinn.is (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gljúfrasteinn was the home and workplace of Halldór Laxness (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955) and his family for more than half a century.
		In the beautiful countryside right next to Gljúfrasteinn, visitors can take walks as part of their visit, to see where Laxness spent his childhood and, in later life, sought his inspiration.
		Sympathy with the underdog: Halldór Laxness (1902-1998) stands head and shoulders above the other Icelandic writers of the 20th century.
	www.gljufrasteinn.is /cat.html?cat=16 (237 words)

	AllRefer.com - HalldOr Kiljan Laxness (Scandinavian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - HalldOr Kiljan Laxness (Scandinavian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		HalldOr Kiljan Laxness[hAl´dOr kil´yAn lAkhs´nes] Pronunciation Key, 1902–98, Icelandic novelist, b.
		Laxness received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/LaxnessH.html (232 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Halldor Laxness
		Laxness, Halldor The Atom Station Publisher: Second Chance Press Sag Harbor, NY 1982.
		Laxness, Halldor Kiljan The Honour of the House Publisher: Helgafell 1959.
		Laxness, Halldor (translated From The Icelandic by J. Thompson) INDEPENDENT PEOPLE An Epic Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf NY 1946.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=Halldor_Laxness (510 words)

	Exploring the Land of Halldor Laxness
		When Icelandic author Halldor Laxness passed away in February, the world lost one of its great literary giants.
		A prolific writer, Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955.
		Through his books, Halldor Laxness introduced Iceland to the rest of the world.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/european_travel/7356 (619 words)

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