Hamsun

American  

[hahm-soon] / ˈhɑm sʊn /

noun

1. Knut 1859–1952, Norwegian novelist: Nobel Prize 1920.

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Hamsun British  

/ ˈhamsun /

noun

1. Knut, (knuːt), pen name of Knut Pedersen. 1859–1952, Norwegian novelist, whose works include The Growth of the Soil (1917): Nobel prize for literature 1920

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Example Sentences

One way to survive the “brutal” winter is through art, he added: “There’s literature from Ibsen and Knut Hamsun, films by Lars von Trier, and there’s music by Bent Sørensen.”

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2022

But Arvid thinks, “Nothing that I had written pointed towards Hamsun, not as I saw it.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2022

When it came to my turn, I said who I was, told them I was nineteen and wrote prose, somewhere between Hamsun and Bukowski, and was working on a novel at the moment.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 10, 2016

Norway's greatest ever writer was Knut Hamsun, about whom there is never-ending debate, particularly over his political views.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2011

Written while Hamsun was yet under forty, the three Kareno plays are an aftermath of his own struggles as a young man to break into the ring of the accepted.

From Knut Hamsun by Larsen, Hanna Astrup