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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Hamsun

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022

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 ● Dec. 31, 2020

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

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2020

“We can’t help loving him, though we have hated him all these years,” Ingar Sletten Kolloen, the Hamsun biographer, told the Times in 2009.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2014

Hamsun counted among his forefathers many of the artistic craftsmen who set their stamp of culture upon their community.

From Knut Hamsun by Hanna Astrup Larsen