(Courtesy of Bettmann / Getty Images) When Halldór Guðjónsson converted to Catholicism in 1923, he changed his surname to Laxness, after the farm in Iceland where he’d been raised. At first ...

Knopf commissioned a reader’s report, consisting of a form on blue paper with a few queries, regarding a translated novel it was considering by an Icelander named Halldór Laxness. Section B of ...

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As Halldór Guðmundsson tells us in his excellent biography of Halldór Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson – he changed his surname to Laxness after the farm where he grew up), things were once rather ...

Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry ...

Its author, the Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, wrote many other novels in his long career, including "The Fish Can Sing," "Iceland's Bell" and "Independent People"; he died in 1998 at ...