Task: Explanation
Input (English): Halldór Kiljan Laxness (] ; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was a twentieth-century Icelandic writer. Laxness wrote poetry, newspaper articles, plays, travelogues, short stories, and novels. Major influences included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; he is the only Icelandic Nobel laureate. Question: John Gunther and Halldór Laxness, are American? Answer: no
Output (English): Halldór Kiljan Laxness  ; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998 was a twentiethcentury Icelandic writer.