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1955 Nobel Prize in Literature

Halldor Kiljan Laxness (1902-1998)

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Halldor Laxness did for rain what John Steinbeck did for dust.

I liked World Light much better because it dealt with the social and political ills that plague rural life head on. Did laxness turn socialist before writing this?


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