text: In a novel by this author, followers of a tycoon known as "Lord Maitreya" try to resurrect a woman using "bioinductance" in a town whose pastor, Jon, has stopped burying the dead.
full_question: In a novel by this author, followers of a tycoon known as "Lord Maitreya" try to resurrect a woman using "bioinductance" in a town whose pastor, Jon, has stopped burying the dead. A novel by this author features a manuscript collector who loses his books to a fire in Copenhagen, and opens with a cord-thief being whipped for insulting the hangman sent to destroy the title object. One of this author's protagonists returns home to find that his wife Rosa has died in childbirth and that their dog has kept the newborn infant alive. This author of a novel titled for the "Bell" of his home country wrote a novel set at Summerhouses, the home of the stubborn farmer Bjartur. For 10 points, name this author of Under the Glacier and Independent People, a Nobel laureate from Iceland.
first_sentence: In a novel by this author, followers of a tycoon known as "Lord Maitreya" try to resurrect a woman using "bioinductance" in a town whose pastor, Jon, has stopped burying the dead.
raw_answer: Halldor Laxness