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  1. World Light by Halldor Kiljan Laxness, Halldor Laxness, 2002-10
  2. Atom Station by Halldor Kiljan Laxness, 1976-01
  3. Knut Hamsun und Halldor Kiljan Laxness by Wilhelm Friese, 2002-01-01
  4. Asmundur Sveinsson. by Halldor Kiljan (text). Laxness, 1961
  5. Asmundur Sveinsson by Halldor Kiljan and Formali EFTIR LAXNESS, 1961
  6. The Honour of the House by Halldor Kiljan Laxness, 1959-01-01
  7. Begegnungen mit Halldór Kiljan Laxness by Wilhelm Friese, 2008-01-01
  8. Skaldatimi. by Halldor [Kiljan] [1902-1998]. LAXNESS, 1963
  9. Hid Ljosa Man. by Halldor Kiljan [1902-1998]. LAXNESS, 1944
  10. I Tuninu Heima. by Halldor [Kiljan] [1902-98]. LAXNESS, 1975
  11. Saga des Fiers a bras by Halldor Kiljan Laxness, 2006-05-15
  12. Asmundur Sveinsson (text is in Icelandic, French, and English) by Formali and Halldor Kiljan Laxness Eftir, 1961
  13. Vettvangur Dagsins by H. K. (Halldor Kiljan) Laxness, 1942

61. Jue08.html
halldor kiljan laxness ,escritor islandés premio nobel de Literatura 2001. Luka Brajnovic
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1868. Luis G. Urbina, escritor y poeta mexicano
1894. King Vidor, estadounidense, director de cine
1906. Artur Balsam, pianista polaco, nacionalizado estadounidense
1920. Julia Jean Frances Mildred Turner, "Lana Turner", actriz estadounidense
1925. Jack Lemmon, actor de cine, estadounidense
1926. Guillermo Moron, escritor venezolano
1931. James Dean, actor estadounidense 1932. John Williams, compositor de bandas sonoras estadounidense 1934. Elly Ameling, soprano holandesa 1935. Luis María Anson, miembro de la Real Academia Española y presidente del diario "La Razón" 1941. Nick Nolte, actor 1965. Miguel Pardeza, ex futbolista 1966. Christo Stoichkov, futbolista 1987. Claudio Villa, cantante italiano 1994. Witold Lutoslawski, compositor y director de orquesta polaco 1998. Halldór Kiljan Gudjónsson, "Halldor Kiljan Laxness", escritor islandés premio Nobel de Literatura

62. San Francisco Examiner
for a Reykjavik Theatre play, Christianity Under The Glacier, adapted from a popularbook by Icelandic nobel Laureate halldor kiljan laxness, and issued a
http://www.examiner.com/ex_files/default.jsp?story=X0411QUARASHIw

63. Kirjallisuuden Nobelit 1901-1989
KIRJALLISUUDEN nobel PALKINNOT nobelPRISEN I LITTERATUR 1901-1989. 1956 Juan Jimenez(Espanja - Spanien) 1955 halldor kiljan laxness (Islanti - Island) 1954
http://www.akateeminen.com/kirjallisuuspalkinnot/kirjallisuuden_nobelit_1901_198

64. Literary Awards - 1949 To 1972
nobel Prize for Literature, Pulitzer Prize for American Fiction, Miles Franklin 1955,halldor kiljan laxness, A Fable William Faulkner, They'd Rather Be Right
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Literary Awards Nobel Prize
for Literature Pulitzer Prize
for American Fiction Miles Franklin Award
for Australian Fiction Hugo Award
for Science Fiction William Faulkner
"Guard of Honor"
James Gould Couzens first awarded 1957 first awarded 1953 Bertrand Russell "The Way West:"
A B Guthrie Jr Par Fabian Lagerkvist "The Town"
Conrad Richter Francis Mauriac "The Caine Mutiny"
Herman Wouk Winston Churchill "The Old Man & the Sea"
Ernest Hemmingway "The Demolished Man"
Alfred Bester Ernest Hemmingway no award no award Halldor Kiljan Laxness "A Fable:" William Faulkner "They'd Rather Be Right" Mark Clifton Juan Ramon Jimenez "Andersonville": MacKinley Kantor "Double Star" Robert Heinlein Albert Camus no award "Voss" Patrick White no award Boris Pasternak "A Death in the Family" James Agee "To the Islands"

65. My Great Store -- Nobel Prize For Literature Winners
of the interest on the endowment made by Alfred nobel, a Swedish chemist, which isheld in trust by the nobel Foundation. 1955 halldor kiljan laxness (Iceland).
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my great store NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
Nobel Prize for Literature
The Nobel Prize for Literature has been awarded by the Swedish Academy since 1901 to a person who has made the greatest contribution to the field of literature, as determined by the Nobel Committee. Nominations for the prize are made by members of the Academy, members of similar academies and societies, professors of literature and language, former Nobel laureates, and presidents of author organizations. The monetary award is a share of the interest on the endowment made by Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, which is held in trust by the Nobel Foundation. Amazon.com is solely responsible for fulfillment of book, DVD, and video orders placed through these links.
Imre Kertész (Hungary)
V.S. Naipaul (England)

66. Nobelpriset - Susning.nu
Se även. nobelmuseet; nobel eMuseum. Pristagare. Medicin Axel HugoTheodor Theorell?, Sverige. Litteratur halldor kiljan laxness? År 1954.
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Nobelpriset (svenska: Nobelpriset) utdelas sedan år 1901 i enlighet med Alfred Nobel s testamente Priset i litteratur delas ut av Svenska Akademien . Priserna i fysik och kemi delas ut av Vetenskapsakademien . Priset i medicin eller fysiologi delas ut av Karolinska institutet Fredspriset delas ut av [Norska Nobelkommittén] . Priset i ekonomi är inte omnämnt i Nobels testamente och är inget riktigt nobelpris. Priset heter egentligen Sveriges Riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne och tillkom år 1969 . Det utses av Vetenskapsakademien och delas ut av Riksbanken Se även Pristagare Eventuell nationalitet är den aktuella vid tillfället då vederbörande tilldelades priset. År 2002

67. IBGE Teen
Translate this page Lista dos prêmios nobel de literatura, desde 1901 1901 - RF Sully Reino Unido)1954 - Ernest Hemingway (EUA) 1955 - halldor kiljan laxness (Islândia) 1956
http://www.ibge.gov.br/ibgeteen/datas/escritor/listas.html
    Selecionamos algumas listas para você que busca referências de autores e obras brasileiros e da literatura universal. Lista dos prêmios Nobel de literatura, desde 1901
    1901 - R.F. Sully-Prudhomme (França)
    1902 - Theodor Mommsen (Alemanha)
    1903 - Bjornstjerne Bjornson (Noruega)
    1904 - Frederic Mistral (Fra) e José Echegaray (Esp)
    1905 - H. Sienkiewicz (Polônia)
    1906 - Giosue Carducci (Itália)
    1907 - Rudyard Kipling (Reino Unido)
    1908 - Rudolf Eucken (Alemanha)
    1909 - Selma Lagerlof (Suécia)
    1910 - Paul Heyse (Alemanha) 1911 - M. Maeterlinck (Bélgica) 1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann (Alemanha) 1913 - R. Tagore (Índia) 1914 - Não foi outorgado 1915 - Romain Rolland (França) 1916 - Verner von Heidenstam (Suécia) 1917 - Karl Gjellerup (Din) e Henrik Pontoppidan (Din) 1918 - Não foi outorgado 1919 - Carl Spitteler (Suíça) 1920 - Knutt Hamsun (Noruega) 1921 - Anatole France (França) 1922 - Jacinto Benavente (Espanha) 1923 - W. B. Yeats (Irlanda)

68. Www.un.org/esa/gopher-data/conf/fwcw/conf/gov/950912134415.txt
Chairperson, Womankind is weaker than mankind has become proverbial in Icelandic it comes from a novel by our nobelwinning author halldor kiljan laxness.
http://www.un.org/esa/gopher-data/conf/fwcw/conf/gov/950912134415.txt
ISO: ISL *************************************************************************** The electronic version of this document has been prepared at the Fourth World Conference on Women by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women Secretariat. *************************************************************************** AS WRITTEN Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing China 4 -15 September 1995 Statement by H.E. Mr. Halldor Asgrimsson, Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade of Iceland Madam Chairperson, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, May I begin by expressing our thanks and appreciation to you, Madam Chairperson, and to the Government of China, for hosting this Fourth World Conference on Women, the largest UN conference ever. There is no doubt that the UN Conferences on Women have contributed enormously to the advancement of gender equality. They have greatly advanced the on-going international exchange of information and ideas about women, their status and rights, leading to legal reforms and changes in international standards. Last but not least they have accelerated changes in norms regarding women's rights. On October 24th, 1975, in the wake of the first UN Women's Conference in Mexico, Icelandic women took a day off, spotlighting in a memorable way the dimensions of women's work in our society. Work which had often been neither recognised nor valued became noticeable by its absence that day. It is the case world-wide, that much of the work of women does not appear in national and international data. This affects both the status of women and their own sense of identity, obscuring the importance of women's contribution to society and to the well-being of humanity. When we overlook, in our decision making, the hidden resources of women's work, experience and ideas, we risk taking the wrong course into our common future. Madam Chairperson, Icelandic law prohibits all discrimination on the basis of gender. Even so, certain temporary affirmative action measures, intended to improve the status of women and promote equality of the sexes, are accepted as legal. Similarly, special consideration paid to women in connection with pregnancy and maternity is not seen as discriminatory. Icelandic law also ensures women and men equal rights to property and inheritance. Furthermore, in accordance with the Icelandic Personal Names Act, a child's surname is generally his or her patronymic or matronymic, and women do not change their names when they marry. But although the legal rights of women are generally well-established in Iceland, a closer look at facts and figures on their status in society reveals that the legislation has not in fact achieved gender equality. Progress has been made in some areas but in others it still seems to be an uphill battle. Icelandic women have, for example, had the right to vote for eighty years, but have still not broken the glass ceiling, being only 25% of politically elected representatives. Moreover, despite equal-pay legislation, there is still a considerable gender-based wage differential in men s favour, a differential which has increased rather than decreased over the past decade. This is not due to a lack of education among women. Icelandic girls are now the majority of students graduating from the University of Iceland. They have taken to heart the underlying meaning of the Icelandic word for education, which is "strengthening ones ability as a human being". The Icelandic government is greatly concerned by the high proportion of illiteracy and lack of education among women in the world. Education is the key to equality even though the doors to economic and political opportunities have been opening slowly so slowly, in fact, that it sometimes seems that while women have been increasing their standard of education, the locks on the doors of opportunity have been changed. As we have seen, equal rights legislation does not guarantee equality, but it does acknowledge inequality and at the same time facilitate and accelerate changes towards equality. In order to strengthen and implement the Icelandic laws on equality, the Government presents an action plan every four years, stating what measures it intends to take to achieve greater equality between men and women. This covers most areas of administration, for example employment and wages, education, representative functions and positions of responsibility, as well as various social improvements. The current action plan, adopted by Parliament in May 1993 and expiring at the end of l 996, emphasises the need for Ministers of State and their Ministries to advance gender equality. In general, the Icelandic Government's main concerns in this field are to promote gender equality on the labour market, bridge the wage gap between the sexes, and make it easier for men and women to share family responsibilities. Finally, the Icelandic Government has decided to give priority to direct measures implementing existing legislation to improve the status of women. It has become increasingly evident that gender equality will not become a reality until the work, experience, knowledge and attitudes of both sexes are recognised as being of equal value in all areas of society; that is, when women and men enjoy equal rights and fulfil their commitments jointly, as members of society and as family members. Gender equality has, not surprisingly, been seen as a women's issue. They have set the agenda. But we must keep in mind that they do not exist in isolation. Changes in the roles of women must be accompanied by changes in the roles of men changes they must define for themselves. If we are to achieve gender equality men must be active partners, and there is an increasing need for them to alter their traditional male image. I wish to emphasise, here, that our need for change does not override our need to mutually respect differing customs, values and opinions. We must avoid forcing our values on other cultures which may well have totally different attitudes and traditions. Tolerance is the key. This, however, does not mean that we can accept compromise in the matter of human rights. Our cultures differ and we should appreciate the variety and learn from it, but we can not accept that such differences be used to systematically undermine human rights. Whatever our differences, we all have in common our dignity as human beings, the core of which is our fundamental human rights. Madam Chairperson, Human rights are neither a privilege nor a goal; they are every human being’s birthright. We know that these rights can be violated, as when violence is used against women in the home or in society as a whole, and we must fight such violations with all our strength. The fundamental idea must be respect for each and every individual, respect for ourselves and for our neighbours. This UN Conference, the fourth on Women, is also one in a chain of international conferences on issues of key significance to human kind. It is vital that we keep this context in mind and ensure that the international community makes progress towards gender equality here in Beijing. In the draft Platform for Action, to be finalised during the next two weeks, there are important portions of the text which are still in dispute. These include those relating to women's human rights, such as their right to control of their own body, to equal partnership in decision making, to equal access to the economy, to ownership of land and property and to inheritance. Even the right of girl-children to equal opportunities in life is in dispute. As we work to confirm the human rights of women, it is our duty to eliminate all forms of discrimination against girl-children. The international community and all the governments of the world have an obligation to ensure girl-children equal rights to life and to grant them the same opportunities as boy-children have. It is beyond doubt that equality between women and men, girls and boys, is urgently needed, indeed vital, for the well-being of all human beings. Let us keep this in mind as we finalise the Platform for Action. If we do, the conference could realise its potential by giving us a practical programme of action, a programme that the governments of the world will recognise as one they should fund and can usefully implement. Madam Chairperson, "Womankind is weaker than mankind" has become proverbial in Icelandic it comes from a novel by our Nobel-winning author Halldor Kiljan Laxness. "Womankind is weaker than mankind" has been used to express the weakness of women as compared to men. I think this is an opportune time to revise its meaning, thus: "Woman-as-a-kind is weaker than mankind. Man-as-a-kind is also weaker than mankind" but women and men together can constitute a powerful whole built on equality, development and peace.

69. Satiria -- Libros
Translate this page Premios nobel de Literatura. AÑO, AUTOR, 1960, Saint John Perse, 1956, Juan RamónJiménez, 1955, halldor kiljan laxness, 1954, Ernest Hemingway, 1953, Winston Churchill,
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  • 70. Icelandic Canadian Club Of Toronto
    Foreign Minister halldor Asgrimson made these comments in Halldór kiljan laxnessHalldór laxness 19021998. nobel laureate Halldór kiljan laxness passed away
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    April 1998
    ICCT FALKINN 38th Year, Number 5 ICCT PRESENTS "RECREATING VINLAND -
    WHAT CAN THE ARTIFACTS TELL US?"

    This presentation features Darrell Markewitz, Interpretive Program Designer, Norse Encampment at L'Anse aux Meadows, site of the first Viking settlement in North America. Darrell will have actual artifacts for us to see.
    The Norse Encampment provides a unique educational resource within the larger framework of the L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site. It portrays an ethnographical study of the Norse in North America, circa 1000 AD. The re-enactment represents aspects of daily life as it would have been carried out at the Vinland outpost and provides insight into the larger framework of Norse culture in general. The presentation is centred within the recreated turf buildings and adjacent compound. A number of reproduction artifacts have been introduced: cooking gear, tools, navigation equipment and household goods like beds and chests. The staff is made up of costumed interpreters who portray historic characters. Small scale physical demonstrations of domestic and craft skills are undertaken throughout the day.
    The intent of this re-enactment is to provide the public with an opportunity to learn in an interactive atmosphere about an early phase of Canadian history, i.e. the Norse presence in Eastern Canada. The objects that make up the camp are all based on artifacts from Norse Northern Europe, dating from 800 - 1000 AD.

    71. Aftonbladet Nyheter Nobelpriset I Litteratur
    Sverige 1952 Francois Mauriac, Frankrike 1953 Winston Churchill, Storbritannien1954 Ernest Hemingway, USA 1955 halldor kiljan laxness, Island 1956 Juan
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    72. Sans Titre
    Translate this page Le prix nobel de littérature depuis sa création, Gao Xingjian Prix nobel de Littérature.1901 Sully Prudhomme (France). 1955 halldor kiljan laxness (Islande).
    http://sites.nt-logic.com/aube/web3/pages/Gao_nobels.htm
    Le prix Nobel de littérature depuis sa création
    Gao Xingjian
    Prix Nobel de Littérature Sully Prudhomme (France). Theodor Mommsen (Allemagne). Bjœrnstjerne Bjœrnson (Norvège). Frédéric Mistral (France), José Echegaray (Espagne). Henryk Sienkiewiez. (Pologne). Giosue Carducci (Italie). Rudyard Kipling (Angleterre). Rudolf Eucken (Allemagne). Selma Lagerlöf (Suède).
    Paul von Heyse (Allemagne). Comte Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgique). Gerhart Hauptmann (Allemagne). Rabindranath (Inde). non décerné. Romain Rolland (France). Carl Gustaf Verner Von Heidenstam (Suède). Karl Gjellerup (Danemark), Henrik Pontoppidan (Danemark). non décerné. Carl Spitteler (Suisse).
    Knut Hamsun (Norvège). Anatole France (France). Jacinto Benavente (Espagne). William Butler Yeats (Irlande). Wladyslaw Reymont (Pologne). George B. Shaw (Irlande). Grazia Deledda (Italie). Henri Bergson (France). Sigrid Undset (Norvège). Thomas Mann (Allemagne).
    Sinclair Lewis (Etats-Unis). Erik Axel Karlfeldt (Suède). John Galsworthy (Angleterre). Ivan Bounine (apatride d’origine russe).

    73. Brèves Islandaises
    Translate this page d'halldor kiljan laxness. Né le 23 avril 1902, il est considéré comme un desplus grands romanciers européens du 20e siècle. Il a reçu le prix nobel de
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    74. Annette Kolodny
    halldor kiljan laxness, Iceland’s nobelprize winning novelist, publisheda trilogy of historical novels from 1943-46, called Iceland’s Bell.
    http://www.mith2.umd.edu/summit/Proceedings/Kolodny.htm
    Annette Kolodny
    N. Vista Valverde Tucson Arizona Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies Harvill Bldg. Box University of Arizona Tucson AZ Opening Plenary Paper ANNETTE KOLODNY             For those of you who have not had a chance to download and assimilate all the readings recommended for this session, let me read historian Patricia Seed’s description of her current project: In my own current work, I have been engaged in writing a comparative history of early colonialism in the Americas As I’m sure everyone here will agree, this is precisely the kind of comparative work that needs to be done.  But, as essentially text-based literary scholars, I think we also need to ask about Seed’s facility in the languages of the documents she intends to compare; and ask, further, if she – or some collaborating scholars – do not possess that language facility, whether she might not too easily flatten all instances of European colonial discourse into an undifferentiated narrative of what she calls “national self-congratulation” or “self-flattery.”  Equally important, if she does not also have at least some rudimentary knowledge of the languages and cultures of the colonized indigenous peoples, might she not miss expressions of resistance that may, even if unwittingly, be inscribed in these documents? EXAMPLE: When the Puritan divine, John Cotton, Jr., was found to have been carrying on an adulterous affair with a colonial woman, his atonement (and, presumably, his punishment, as well) was a ministry to the Indians on

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    76. Halldór Kiljan Laxness - Biography
    Halldór kiljan laxness was born in 1902 in Reykjavik, the capital of laxness is alsothe author of the topical and From nobel Lectures, Literature 19011967.
    http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1955/laxness-bio.html
    was born in 1902 in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, but spent his youth in the country. From the age of seventeen on, he travelled and lived abroad, chiefly on the European continent. He was influenced by expressionism and other modern currents in Germany and France. In the mid-twenties he was converted to Catholicism; his spiritual experiences are reflected in several books of an autobiographical nature, chiefly (Under the Holy Mountain), 1924. In 1927, he published his first important novel, (The Great Weaver from Kashmir). Laxness's religious period did not last long; during a visit to America he became attracted to socialism. (The Book of the People), 1929, is evidence of a change toward a socialist outlook. In 1930, Laxness settled in Iceland.
    Laxness's main achievement consists of three novel cycles written during the thirties, dealing with the people of Iceland. 1931, and 1932, (both translated as Salka Valka), tell the story of a poor fisher girl; Sjalfstaettfolk (Independent People), 1934-35, treats the fortunes of small farmers, whereas the tetralogy (The Light of the World), 1937-40, has as its hero an Icelandic folk poet. Laxness's later works are frequently historical and influenced by the saga tradition:

    77. Halldór Laxness
    was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child. (fromlaxness's nobel acceptance speech). Halldór kiljan laxness was born Halldór
    http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/laxness.htm
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    B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback Icelandic writer, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1955. Laxness published his first book at the age of 17. He is best-known for his fiction depicting the hardships of the working fishermen and farmers, and historical novels combining the tradition of sagas and mythology with national and social issues. With Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889-1975) and (1902-1983) Laxness was among the first internationally known Icelandic authors. " I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams. Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child." (from Laxness's Nobel acceptance speech) Returning to Iceland, Laxness spent several years traveling through the country. During a stay in the United States, he lectured among others about fishing at a IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) club but was not enthusiastic by their anarchist activities and believed that they opposed as much Marx and Lenin as Rockefeller and Morgan. In San Francisco he read James Joyce's Ulysses - later he wondered why Joyce is not counted among the most important surrealist writers. German authors, such as Thomas Mann, did not inspire him - according to Laxness Mann was too too professor-like and Goethe overrated. Perhaps the most important writer for him was

    78. Halldor Kiljan Laxness
    halldor kiljan laxness Born 4/23/02 Birthplace Rekjavik, Iceland. Awarded theNobel Prize in literature in 1955, laxness was a major figure in 20thcentury
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    Awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1955, Laxness was a major figure in 20th-century Icelandic literature, drawing inspiration from his country's sagas and folklore. Influenced in turn by Christianity, socialism, and communism, his work often sparked controversy. He is most well known for his multi-volume novels depicting life in an Icelandic fishing village: Salka Valka (1932; trans. 1936), Independent People World Light Died:
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    79. Halldór Laxness - BiblioMonde
    Translate this page Halldór laxness Halldór kiljan laxness (1902-1998) occupe une position centraledans la vie et a vécu jusqu’à plus de 95 ans) et son prix nobel obtenu en
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    80. Comfama - Biblioteca Preguntas Frecuentes
    1954 Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961); 1955 halldor kiljan laxness (1902-); 1956
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