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Halldór Laxness
When I was young, one of the books I read with most enthusiasm was "Bells of Iceland," by the Icelandic 1955 Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness. Who would tell me that time would make us friends. He, after reading my Trilogy of Love and Death was, together with Javier Sádaba, the main instigator to my writing essays. There came "Esotericism, Heterodoxy Today," dedicated to Laxness: "To Halldór K. Laxness, Literature Nobel Prize 1955, source of inspiration since my youth, and of invaluable encouragement and support since our meeting in the summer of 1990."
I always remember the tea with home-baked cakes and the dinners at his home, in petit comité with him and his wife.
Photo of the first meeting together with his wife and a common friend. Reykjavik 1990.
His writing machine in his working room.
Two book lovers at a Nobel's library.
Another thing in common: music.
Signing a Spanish copy of his book "Bells of Iceland" for me.
Toasting to our friendship with liquor made by his wife.