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. A. A. Milne: Alan Alexander Milne ( ; 18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems.
Halldór Kiljan Laxness