Harald V of Norway vs. Halldór Laxness
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Harald V of Norway
1937 – present
Harald V is King of Norway, reigning since 1991.
"It is not always easy to say where we are from, what nationality we are. Home is where our heart is – and that cannot always be confined within national borders…"
Halldór Laxness
1902 – 1998
Halldór Kiljan Laxness was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Writers who influenced Laxness include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernest Hemingway.
"When my grandfather was born there were barely two thousand people living in the capital; in my own childhood there were nearly five thousand. In grandfather's …"