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Michael Hofmann: Halldór Laxness does both, 4 April 2024

The Islander: A Biography of Halldór Laxness 
by Halldór Guðmundsson, translated by Philip Roughton.
MacLehose, 486 pp., £25, September 2023, 978 1 5294 3373 9
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... late-stage tourist industry that specialises in taking visitors to bleak and unpopulated places.As Halldór Guðmundsson tells us in his excellent biography of Halldór Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson – he changed his surname to Laxness after the farm where he grew up), things ...

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