The novel "Salka Valka" was first published in 1931-32. This was Halldor Laxness's first epic novel, which described with merciless realism the difficult lif...

When the Americans make an offer to buy Icelandic land to build an atomic war base, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country, and it is here ...

In the historical trilogy “The Bell of Iceland” (1943), “The Golden-haired Maiden” (1944), “Fire in Copenhagen” (1946), Laxness praised the resilience of the...

"Independent People" is a saga of the life of a simple poor peasant, Bjartur. The author talks about Bjartur’s twenty years of hard work on a piece of land a...

“The Light of the World” is a tetralogy by the classic of Icelandic literature Halldór Laxness (b. 1902), his most significant work, according to the author ...