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

Just after the war, Hamsun was set to be tried for treason but instead was committed to a hospital.

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

Almost a century before Bernhard delivered these tiny eulogies — for art, for civilization, for us — Knut Hamsun wrote about a man locked in complete darkness for a single night.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2010

This style was fully developed when Hamsun made his first appearance as an author, a fact which adds interest to Sigurd Hoel's opinion that the dash and brilliance of "Hunger" was due to American influence.

From Knut Hamsun by Larsen, Hanna Astrup