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

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

Hamsun had become, in old age, a supporter of the Nazis.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2014

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

Against this whole school of literature with its absorption in types and causes Hamsun protested with all his youthful vehemence and all his power of drastic ridicule.

From Knut Hamsun by Larsen, Hanna Astrup