Which writer is from a country closer to the United States of America, Halldór Laxness or A. A. Milne?
Halldór Laxness Halldór Kiljan Laxness (] ; born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was a twentieth-century Icelandic writer. Laxness wrote poetry, newspaper articles, plays, travelogues, short stories, and novels. Major influences included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature; he is the only Icelandic Nobel laureate.
Peter Milne (screenwriter) Peter Milne (August 15, 1896 – March 29, 1968) was an American screenwriter, who wrote for more than fifty films. Prior to this, he wrote reviews for the "Motion Picture News", and was the author of "Motion Picture Directing: The Facts and Theories of the Newest Art" (1922).