Major influences included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway.[2] He received the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature; he is the only Icelandic Nobel laureate.
Dagiti nakaimpluensia kaniana kadagiti panagsursurat na ket mairaman ni August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht ken ni Ernest Hemingway.[1] Idi 1955 nagunggunaan isuna ti Premio Nobel iti Literatura, isuna laeng ti tao a nanipud idiat Islalandia ti nangabak iti daytoy a premio.