It was at that occasion he adopted the family name Laxness and added Kiljan after his first name, Halldór. Laxness was baptised and confirmed in Catholicism early in the year 1923. Maur, followed the rules of Saint Benedict from Nursia. In the end of 1922, Laxness joined an abbey in Clervaux, Luxemburg. Still, the book must be taken in account when considering Laxness's life. The book was much criticised, and its future as an accepted reference is uncertain. In 2003 Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson published the memoir of Laxness, part one of three. Laxness died on February 8th 1998 at the age of 95. From 1945, Laxness lived in Gljúfrasteinn, Mosfellsveit. For a list of publications by Laxness, see Publications. In his career he wrote 51 books, many newspaper articles, poems, plays, short stories and more. Not much later he published an article (about an old clock) under his name in the same paper.
He soon started to read books and write stories, and when he was 14 years old he got his first article published in Morgunblaðið under the name H.G.
During his first years he lived in Reykjavík, but then he moved to Laxnes in Mosfellssveit in 1905. Halldór Kiljan Laxness was the son of Sigríður Halldórsdóttir (born 1872) and Guðjón Helgason (born 1870). He won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1955. Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson) (ApFebruary 8, 1998) was a famous 20th century Icelandic author of such novels as Independent People, The Atom Station, Paradise Reclaimed, Iceland's Bell, The Fish can Sing, and World Light.
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