Throughout the 1930s, he wrote novels about the common people of his country, such as Independent People and The Light of the World.
He first became known to Americans when he authored The Book of the People in 1929, a collection of satiric essays with a Marxist viewpoint. Throughout the 1930s, he wrote novels about the common people of his country, such as Independent People and The Light of the World. In the 1950s, he hit the peak of his fame, when he took part in the Soviet sponsored "peace movement" and won the 1952 Stalin Prize and the 1955 Nobel Prize for Literature. FTP, name this author, who died in 1998 at the age of 95 and is called by many the greatest author in Icelandic history.
He first became known to Americans when he authored The Book of the People in 1929, a collection of satiric essays with a Marxist viewpoint.
Halldor {Laxness}