Talk:Halldór Laxness

message: I've removed the following from the article pending verifiability:
:...some of them controversial, such as the three volume work by Hannes Hólmsteinn Gissurarson. Laxness’ widow, with public support from many of Iceland's most prominent scholars on literature, sued Gissurarson for plagiarism, accusing him of editing and/or re-prhasing whole passages from her late husband's works and passing them on as his own. Gissurarson, a long-time outspoken conservative, claimed that these allegations were motivated by politics or even personal ill-will. In November 2006, Gissurarson was acquitted on all counts by the Reykjavík District Court.
Can this be properly sourced? Jkelly 02:35, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gissurarson Biography 

message: Hi; came here looking to see which book it was he was awarded the Nobel Prize for; it doesn't say in the article or listing, at least not by searching the article for "nobel", and it's not on the Nobel Prize page either.Skookum1 21:54, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Independent people is probably most Icelander´s favorite. --68.0.213.208 (talk) 04:40, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Which book won the Nobel?

message: In Icelandic wikipedia,there is a good photo of Laxness which is given by a website for promotion of the writer. What is the appropriate license I should give if I upload it? --ZaDiak (talk) 00:50, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: Hi, 
This article needs a complete rewriting, which would be obvious to anyone who know Laxness' work and his life. With all due respect to the pioneers of this article, the present article misses crucial points in Laxness' life, is filled with trivia unrelated to Laxness, and does not cover the literary importance of his work, in Europe and America during his lifetime, and still in Icelandic culture. If there are no protests within the next weeks I could volunteer. 
Best regards  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.144.13.213 (talk) 10:02, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Total overhaul 

message: Removed "further reading" section, most were in Icelandic and not available for English readers, and put the rest in the reference section.Dktrfz (talk) 22:15, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Further reading

message: 18:48, 1 March 2014‎ Comp.arch (talk | contribs)‎ . . (18,657 bytes) (+143)‎ . . (Both are "right", main town is postal code 270, rural part is 271 still Mosfellsbær.
 Icelandic version says Mosfellsbær. See "phone book" ja.is and http://gljufrasteinn.is/is/um_gljufrastein/fyrir_gesti/stadsetning_gljufrasteins/) (undo | thank)''
:I see your point. Icelandic version (at gljúfrasetinn.is, meant for travellers. Icelandic wikipedia article is ok) is wrong also, no telephone, no Mosfellsbær either. That is what caught my eye. Really what I (first) wanted to fix was that he moved to Mosfellsveit (-sveit means "rural"). Hope the language is clear and correct now. comp.arch (talk) 09:44, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Early years

message: I changed:
:"The demoralization of the occupation period is described... nowhere as dramatically as in Halldor Kiljan Laxness' Atómstöðin
to:
:"The demoralization of the occupation period is described... nowhere as dramatically as in Halldor Kiljan Laxness' Atómstöðin
Maybe somone had already changed to "Atómstöðin", I don't know, if not it seems strange that the quote used "ð" and "ö" there and not "ó" in Halldór. Maybe it didn't as the quote is in English, but the writer Einarsson may have been Icelandic and I don't have the actual source for the quote. Even if diatrics weren't there can they be added as it is a "typo" (without sic)? comp.arch (talk) 09:38, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I only saw this now on the talk page. I made the edits to the quotes. I didn't have access to the books and thought someone didn't know how to type them in (it seemed an Icelander wrote at least one of the books). I couldn't revert my own change and not sure all quotes need reverting as not all the quotes are from the same book. They might all need reverting at least those you know to be incorrect. Maybe quotes need not be exact in this regard but I want to err on the side that is known. In all non-quotes however please keep as is. comp.arch (talk) 18:00, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added [[diacritic]] with-in quotes 

message: Is this really necessary? Is an album by an unknown band likely to cause confusion with a Nobel Laureate, or is it merely self-serving?Dktrfz (talk) 00:16, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hatnote for Halldór Laxness (album) 

message: Will be working on sourcing and inserting quotes for those books without them already.Dktrfz (talk) 19:54, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further Additions 

message: This article is a little focused on his works and not much else. See the Ævi and Viðurkenningar chapters in the icelandic wikipedia article, which tries to cover his lifetime and awards from universities. I would like to see a note on the style that the books use. Also https://www.mbl.is/serefni/laxness/ shows how detailed an article about him could be. I am declining to move the rating to B-class for these reasons, but I will also note it does not need very much to get there, I am not expecting anything near of an rewrite of the mbl.is article. Snævar (talk) 12:34, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  B-class, not quite