Nobel laureate
Halldór Laxness — Nobel Prize in Literature 1955
“for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland”
Prize motivation
“for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland”
The Swedish Academy awarded Halldór Laxness the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland.
Other laureates of the 1950s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).