Yesterday marked seventy years since Iceland gained its first Nobel laureate, when, on October 27, 1955, the Swedish Academy announced that Halldór Kiljan Laxness had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The greatest honor a nation can receive
Yesterday marked seventy years since Iceland gained its first Nobel laureate, when, on October 27, 1955, the Swedish Academy announced that Halldór Kiljan Laxness had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.