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

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

It would be unfair to tie Knausgaard too closely to Hamsun; Knausgaard’s views on Hitler bear zero resemblance to his forebear’s.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2014

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

Very early in his career as an author Hamsun struck the keynote of the message which in his most recent works he has preached with so much power.

From Knut Hamsun by Larsen, Hanna Astrup