Hamsun

[ hahm-soo n ]

/ ˈhɑm sʊn /

noun

Knut

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

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Example sentences from the Web for hamsun

In the early eighties, when Hamsun started out for America, the tide of Norwegian immigration was at its height.
Knut Hamsun|Hanna Astrup Larsen
To Hamsun the abstraction called society, which looms so large in the liberal thought of to-day, has no existence.
Knut Hamsun|Hanna Astrup Larsen
Hamsun sometimes resorts to this method, but even then the dead live on in the memory of those who have known them.
Knut Hamsun|Hanna Astrup Larsen
One of Hamsun's most beautiful poems is a homage to Bjrnson.
Knut Hamsun|Hanna Astrup Larsen

Hamsun made up his mind that his wanderings must end and his real work begin, no matter at what cost.
Knut Hamsun|Hanna Astrup Larsen

British Dictionary definitions for hamsun

Hamsun

/ (Norwegian ˈhamsun) /

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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