Halldor Laxness
Icelandic author and Nobel laureate whose novels celebrate the resilience of ordinary Icelanders against the forces of history and capitalism. Independent People is his masterpiece, a darkly comic portrait of a stubborn Icelandic farmer.
Works
- Independent PeopleEpic novel about an Icelandic farmer's struggle for independence across generations
- The Atom StationPolitical allegory set in Iceland during Cold War occupation and modernization
- Iceland's BellHistorical novel about Scottish traders and Icelandic resistance to Danish rule
- Under the GlacierPhilosophical novel about faith and absurdity in a remote Icelandic glacier valley
- The Fish Can Sing