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

Knut Hamsun’s novel ‘Hunger’ is found on a bench in the south of France and completely disintegrates as it is read one last time.

From Los Angeles Times

“Well hello there Knut Hamsun,” old friends say as he enters the bar.

From Los Angeles Times

On one hand, Knausgaard argues that Knut Hamsun had to abandon “every semblance of self-censorship” in order to inhabit his characters, and that Ingmar Bergman’s genius came from depths of the unconscious, “where boundlessness prevails.”

From New York Times

Knausgaard reminds us of the famous death scene in Hamsun’s novel “Wayfarers,” in which a man is trampled to death under a flock of sheep.

From New York Times

I remember he gave me his copy of Hunger by Knut Hamsun when I told him I hadn’t read it.

From The Guardian