For a list of publications by Laxness, see Publications. In his career he wrote 51 books, many newspaper articles, poems, plays, short stories and more. Not much later he published an article (about an old clock) under his name in the same paper. He soon started to read books and write stories, and when he was 14 years old he got his first article published in Morgunblaðið under the name H.G. During his first years he lived in Reykjavík, but then he moved to Laxnes in Mosfellssveit in 1905. Halldór Kiljan Laxness was the son of Sigríður Halldórsdóttir (born 1872) and Guðjón Helgason (born 1870). He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1955.
Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson) (ApFebruary 8, 1998) was a famous 20th century Icelandic author of such novels as Independent People, The Atom Station, Paradise Reclaimed, Iceland's Bell, The Fish can Sing, and World Light.
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