Halldor Laxness was born near Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1902. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the century, he has written more than sixty books, including novels, short stories, essays, poems, plays, and memoirs. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1998. In time for the centenary of the birth of Iceland's Nobel Laureate: his delightful novel of a poor Icelandic farmer's journey to Mormon Utah and back in search of paradise.
"Laxness has genuine magic as a novelist." --New York Herald Tribune "The qualities of the sagas pervade his writing, and particularly a kind of humor--oblique, stylized and childlike--that can be found in no other contemporary writer." --Atlantic Monthly "Full of an earthy poetry...a style wonderfully wise and entirely Scandinavian in its combination of magic and reality." --The New York Times Book Review
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