As per our current Database, Halldor Laxness has been died on Feb 8, 1998 (age 95).
When Halldor Laxness die, Halldor Laxness was 95 years old.
| Popular As | Halldor Laxness |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Age | 95 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Taurus |
| Born | April 23, 1902 (Reykjavik, Iceland) |
| Birthday | April 23 |
| Town/City | Reykjavik, Iceland |
| Nationality | Iceland |
Halldor Laxness’s zodiac sign is Taurus. According to astrologers, Taurus is practical and well-grounded, the sign harvests the fruits of labor. They feel the need to always be surrounded by love and beauty, turned to the material world, hedonism, and physical pleasures. People born with their Sun in Taurus are sensual and tactile, considering touch and taste the most important of all senses. Stable and conservative, this is one of the most reliable signs of the zodiac, ready to endure and stick to their choices until they reach the point of personal satisfaction.
Halldor Laxness was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
An Icelandic author and the 1955 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, he is best known for such novels as The Atom Station, Iceland's Bell, and The Fish Can Sing. He also published several memoirs, plays, travelogues, and short story collections.
He published his first article in the local newspaper when he was just fourteen years old.
He was blacklisted in the United States after writing a satirical novel, The Atom Station, about the consequences of the atomic bomb.
His daughter, Guony Halldorsdottir, became an award-winning filmmaker.
In 1941, he translated Ernest Hemingway's famous work, A Farewell to Arms, into the Icelandic language.
