Editing Halldór Laxness (section)

===Later years===
In the 1960s Laxness was very active in Icelandic theater. He wrote and produced plays, the most successful of which was ''The Pigeon Banquet'' (''Dúfnaveislan'', 1966).<ref>Magnússon, Sigurður (ed.),''Modern Nordic Plays, Iceland'', p. 23, Twayne: New York, 1973</ref>

In 1968 Laxness published the "visionary novel"<ref>Sontag, Susan, ''At the Same Time'', p. 100, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 2007</ref> ''Kristnihald undir Jökli'' (''Under the Glacier / Christianity at the Glacier''). 

Laxness was awarded the [[Sonning Prize]] in 1969.

In 1970 Laxness published an influential ecological essay, ''Hernaðurinn gegn landinu'' (''The War Against the Land'').<ref>Henning, Reinhard, Phd. paper ''Umwelt-engagierte Literatur aus Island und Norwegen'', University of Bonn, 2014</ref> In the 1970s he published what he called "essay novels": ''Innansveitarkronika'' (''A Parish Chronicle'', 1970) and ''Guðsgjafaþula'' (''A Narration of God's Gifts'', 1972). Neither has been translated into English.<ref>Guðmundsson, Halldór, ''Scandinavica'', vol. 42, no. 1, pg 43</ref> Laxness continued to write essays and memoirs into the 1980s. As he grew older he began to suffer from [[Alzheimer's disease]] and eventually moved into a nursing home, where he died on 8 February 1998, at the age of 95.<ref> Guðmundsson, P. 466</ref>