Paradise Reclaimed (27 page)
Halldór Laxness
PARADlSE RECLAlMED
Halldór Laxness was born near Reykjavík, 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 in Literature. He died in 1998.
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FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, MARCH 2002
English language translation copyright © 1962, copyright renewed 1990 by Halldór Laxness
Introduction copyright © 2002 by Jane Smiley
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