Editing Halldór Laxness (section)

===Early life===
Halldór Guðjónsson was born in [[Reykjavík]] in 1902. When he was three, his family moved to the Laxnes farm in [[Mosfellsbær|Mosfellssveit]] parish.<ref>Hallberg, Peter, ''Halldór Laxness'', Twayne Publishers, New York, 1971, p. 11</ref> He was brought up and enormously influenced by his grandmother, who "sang me ancient songs before I could talk, told me stories from heathen times and sang me cradle songs from the Catholic era".<ref>Laxness, Halldór, ''Heiman eg for'', (Helgafell, Reykjavík, 1952), pp. 20–24</ref> He started to read books and write stories at an early age and attended the technical school in Reykjavík from 1915 to 1916. His earliest published writings appeared in 1916 in ''Morgunblaðið'' and in the children's periodical ''Æskan.''<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Kress |first1=Helga |last2=Tartt |first2=Alison |date=2004 |editor-last=Stevens |editor-first=Patrick J. |title=Halldór Laxness (23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) |journal=Dictionary of Literary Biography}}</ref> The same year, two letters-to-the-editor Halldór wrote also appeared in the North American-Icelandic children's newspapers ''Sólskin'', which was published in Winnipeg, Manitoba.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Crocker |first=Christopher |title=The Sunshine Children |publisher=Hin kindin |year=2023 |isbn=9789935916556 |location=Reykjavík}}</ref> Laxness then attended and in 1918 graduated from the Reykjavík Lyceum.<ref> Guðmundsson, p. 23</ref> By the time his first novel, ''Barn náttúrunnar'' (''Child of Nature'', 1919), was published he had already begun his travels on the European continent.<ref>Guðmundsson, pp. 33–34</ref>