A Parish Chronicle

Halldor Laxness (1908-98) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth-century, he wrote more than sixty books. Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.>

About the author

Halldór Laxness (1908-98) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth-century, he wrote more than sixty books. Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.

Product details

• Authors: Halldor Laxness, Halldór Laxness
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 02.07.2026
• EAN: 9781529985757
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-8575-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Brief Encounters
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Iceland, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1880 to c 1889, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), Folklore studies / Study of myth, Literature of Iceland