In this task, you are given a context paragraph, a question based on that and corresponding answer of a question. Your task is to generate supporting fact/knowledge from context paragraph which helps in answering a given question.
Q: Halldor Kiljan Laxness (] ; born Halldor Gujonsson; 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 Halldor Laxness, are American? Answer: no
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Halldor Kiljan Laxness ; born Halldor Gujonsson; 23 April 1902 8 February 1998 was a twentiethcentury Icelandic writer.