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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 461,345 page views. His biography is available in 88 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 84 in 2019). Halldór Laxness is the 256th most popular writer (down from 224th 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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  • 460k

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  • 70.93

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  • 88

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 12.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Halldór Laxness ranks 256 out of 5,755. Before him are Walt Whitman, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Eckhart Tolle, Isabel Allende, and Bartolomé de las Casas. After him are Dario Fo, Henrik Pontoppidan, Frédéric Mistral, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Alcaeus of Mytilene, and Jaroslav Hašek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Halldór Laxness ranks 12. Before him are Paul Dirac, Leni Riefenstahl, Georgy Malenkov, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Talcott Parsons. After him are Fernand Braudel, Ray Kroc, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Barbara McClintock, Eugene Wigner, and Nâzım Hikmet. Among people deceased in 1998, Halldór Laxness ranks 5. Before him are Akira Kurosawa, Pol Pot, Frank Sinatra, and Jean Marais. After him are Todor Zhivkov, Ernst Jünger, Carlos Castaneda, Jean-François Lyotard, Yang Shangkun, Octavio Paz, and Alan Shepard.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Halldór Laxness ranks 3 out of 180. Before him are Leif Erikson (970) and Snorri Sturluson (1179). After him are Vigdís Finnbogadóttir (1930), Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (1942), Björk (1965), Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (1943), Bjarni Herjólfsson (966), Egill Skallagrímsson (904), Ásgeir Ásgeirsson (1894), Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir (1000), and Jón Sigurðsson (1811).

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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), Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889), Arnaldur Indriðason (1961), Sæmundr fróði (1056), Jón Arason (1484), Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614), Magnús Scheving (1964), Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807), Matthías Jochumsson (1835), and Sturla Þórðarson (1214).

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