| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1954 |
| Number: | 6 - 5 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Halldór Kiljan Laxness |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1902 |
| Year, Death: | 1998 |
| Profession: | Author |
| Country: | ICELAND (IS) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1955 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Kemp Malone |
| Profession: | Professor of English Linguistics |
| University: | Johns Hopkins University |
| City: | Baltimore |
| State: | MD |
| Country: | UNITED STATES (US) |