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

One way to survive the “brutal” winter is through art, he added: “There’s literature from Ibsen and Knut Hamsun, films by Lars von Trier, and there’s music by Bent Sørensen.”

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2022

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

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2022

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

When the strain becomes intolerable, the tension suddenly snaps with the receipt of five or ten kroner, and then Hamsun instantly removes his hero from our sight.

From Knut Hamsun by Larsen, Hanna Astrup