Soon the author’s attention turned from religion to socialism, though, and he wrote his most important works Salka Valka ( I: 1931 II: 1932), Independent People ( Sjálfstætt fólk I and II: 1934 1935), World Light ( Heimsljós I-IV: 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940), Iceland’s Bell ( Íslandsklukkan I-III: 1943 1944 1946), and The Atom Station ( Atómstöðin: 1948). During this time he produced among others his much acclaimed novel The Great Weaver from Kashmir ( Vefarinn mikli frá Kasmír: 1927). In the 1920s he converted to Catholicism and adopted his middle name Kiljan and the last name Laxness while staying in a Benedictine abbey in Luxembourg for studies. He turned to writing early and brought out his first novel, Barn náttúrunnar ( Child of Nature), already at the age of seventeen. Halldór Kiljan Laxness was born Halldór Guðjónsson in Reykjavík, Iceland, in April 1902 and grew up in Laxnes, a village then outside the capital, now part of it and called Mosfellsveit.
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