Halldór Laxness
1902 – 1998 · Iceland · Literature
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1955
Independent People gave a small nation a world literature.
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- Sigrid Undset
1882 – 1949 · Literature
The saga-realist novel of a northern community is their shared inheritance.
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