{"id":1283,"date":"2025-10-09T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandconsulateghana.com\/news\/laxness-disappearing-from-icelandic-schools\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:00:00","slug":"laxness-disappearing-from-icelandic-schools","status":"publish","type":"news_item","link":"https:\/\/icelandconsulateghana.com\/is\/news\/laxness-disappearing-from-icelandic-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Laxness disappearing from Icelandic schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0 1em 1em 0;\" align=\"left\" alt=\"The leaves are falling from the trees at Glj\u00fafrasteinn, the former home of Halld\u00f3r Laxness &amp;#8212; just like the Nobel laureate&amp;#8217;s books are falling off the curricula of Icelandic schools.\" src=\"https:\/\/c.arvakur.is\/frimg\/1\/60\/19\/1601939A.jpg\"><br \/>\nSeventy years after Halld\u00f3r Laxness received the Nobel Prize in Literature and ninety years after the publication of Independent People, the Icelandic author\u2019s works appear to be rapidly vanishing from high school reading lists.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy years after Halld\u00f3r Laxness received the Nobel Prize in Literature and ninety years after the publication of Independent People, the Icelandic author\u2019s works appear to be rapidly vanishing from high school reading lists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1284,"template":"","content_type":[],"class_list":["post-1283","news_item","type-news_item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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