WRITER

Halldór Laxness

1902 - 1998

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Halldór Kiljan Laxness (Icelandic: [ˈhaltour ˈcʰɪljan ˈlaksnɛs] ; 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, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Halldór Laxness has received more than 491,686 page views. His biography is available in 91 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 88 in 2019). Halldór Laxness is the 245th most popular writer (up from 256th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Iceland and the 2nd most popular Icelander Writer.

Halldór Laxness is most famous for his novel, Independent People, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.

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  • 490k

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  • 71.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 91

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 14.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Halldór Laxness ranks 245 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacob Grimm, Nikos Kazantzakis, Fuzûlî, Robert Musil, John Milton, and Saadi Shirazi. After him are J. M. G. Le Clézio, Paula Hitler, Germaine de Staël, Valmiki, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and Peter Handke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Halldór Laxness ranks 11. Before him are Paul Dirac, Leni Riefenstahl, Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers, John Steinbeck, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. After him are Talcott Parsons, Eugene Wigner, Fernand Braudel, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Nâzım Hikmet, and Alfred Kastler. Among people deceased in 1998, Halldór Laxness ranks 5. Before him are Pol Pot, Akira Kurosawa, Frank Sinatra, and Jean Marais. After him are Todor Zhivkov, Carlos Castaneda, Ernst Jünger, Octavio Paz, Jean-François Lyotard, Niklas Luhmann, and Yang Shangkun.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Halldór Laxness ranks 3 out of 190. Before him are Leif Erikson (970), and Snorri Sturluson (1179). After him are Thorfinn Karlsefni (1000), Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (1930), Björk (1965), Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (1943), Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (1942), Bjarni Herjólfsson (966), Egill Skallagrímsson (904), Katrín Jakobsdóttir (1976), and Ásgeir Ásgeirsson (1894).

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Among WRITERS In Iceland

Among writers born in Iceland, Halldór Laxness ranks 2. Before him are Snorri Sturluson (1179). After him are Egill Skallagrímsson (904), Arnaldur Indriðason (1961), Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889), Magnús Scheving (1964), Jón Arason (1484), Sæmundr fróði (1056), Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614), Guðbergur Bergsson (1932), Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807), and Matthías Jochumsson (1835).

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