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Halldor Laxness
(1902-1998) is the undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and considered one of the greatest European novelists of the twentieth century. Born near Reykjavik in Iceland on 23 April 1902, Halldór Laxness began writing at a young age: his first
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