Halldór Kiljan Laxness was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Writers who influenced Laxness include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernest Hemingway. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1955, announced October 27, 1955. Halldór Laxness, “for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland”. Halldór Laxness: born 1902, Reykjavik, Iceland. Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).