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The leaves are falling from the trees at Gljúfrasteinn, the former home of Halldór Laxness — just like the Nobel laureate’s books are falling off the curricula of Icelandic schools.
Seventy years after Halldór Laxness received the Nobel Prize in Literature and ninety years after the publication of Independent People, the Icelandic author’s works appear to be rapidly vanishing from high school reading lists.