Hamsun

[hahm-soo n]

noun

Knut [knoot] /knut/, 1859–1952, Norwegian novelist: Nobel Prize 1920.

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Hamsun has returned, as it were, to the scene of his passionate youth, but in altered guise.
Mothwise
Knut Hamsun
Then, without warning, Hamsun enters upon a new phase of power.
Mothwise
Knut Hamsun
Then, with Growth of the Soil, Hamsun achieves his greatest triumph.
Mothwise
Knut Hamsun
From what has just been said one might conclude that the spirit of Hamsun is fundamentally unsocial.
Pan
Knut Hamsun
Problems do not enter into the novels of Hamsun in the same manner as they did into the plays of Ibsen.
Pan
Knut Hamsun

British Dictionary definitions for hamsun

Hamsun

noun

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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Hamsun

Examples from the Web for hamsun

Historical Examples

Hamsun has returned, as it were, to the scene of his passionate youth, but in altered guise.

Then, without warning, Hamsun enters upon a new phase of power.

Then, with Growth of the Soil, Hamsun achieves his greatest triumph.

From what has just been said one might conclude that the spirit of Hamsun is fundamentally unsocial.

Problems do not enter into the novels of Hamsun in the same manner as they did into the plays of Ibsen.

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