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

The result is fervid and fearful; at times, “Pond” recalls works by Knut Hamsun and Samuel Beckett, in which characters are more obviously forced into states of isolation.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 11, 2016

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

It was the first time I heard the name Knut Hamsun," writes Lundeg�rd, "and the first time I heard the phrase 'something of a Dostoievsky' used about any of his books.

From Knut Hamsun by Larsen, Hanna Astrup