Hamsun

[hahm-soon]

noun

1. Knut 1859–1952, Norwegian novelist: Nobel Prize 1920.

Hamsun

/ 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

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.

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

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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.”

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There’s an alert defense of Knut Hamsun’s fiction.

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

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