Legacy
His daughter Guðný Halldórsdóttir is an award-winning filmmaker. Her first work, a popular magical-realist film adaptation of Kristnihald undir jōkli (Under the Glacier) screened at film festivals and repertory cinemas around the world for many years. In 1999 she directed an adaptation of the Laxness story The Honour of the House, which was submitted for Academy Award consideration for best foreign film.
His grandson is a hip-hop artist known in Iceland as Dóri DNA.
Interest in Laxness increased in the 21st century in English-speaking countries with the re-publishing of several novels and the publication of Iceland's Bell (2003) and The Great Weaver from Kashmir (2008) in new translations by Philip Roughton.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)