Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more...
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Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun published in 1890 by P.G. Philipsens Forlag. The novel has been hailed as the...
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Hamarøy Municipality (section Knut Hamsun)
Statoil gas station. The writer Knut Hamsun, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature, grew up in Hamarøy. The Knut Hamsun Centre, a museum and educational...
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Municipality. He was the son of the Nobel Prize winning novelist Knut Hamsun and actress Marie Hamsun. At the age of five, his family moved from Hamarøy to Nørholm...
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decision by Norway to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Knut Hamsun, the Nobel Prize–winning Norwegian author and later Nazi sympathizer...
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86, the Nobel laureate novelist Knut Hamsun wrote an obituary of Adolf Hitler in the newspaper Aftenposten. Hamsun's eulogy to Hitler served as the collaborationist...
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Growth of the Soil (category Novels by Knut Hamsun)
Growth of the Soil (Norwegian Markens Grøde) is a novel by Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. It follows the story of a...
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The Knut Hamsun Centre (Norwegian: Hamsunsenteret) is a museum and educational centre in Hamarøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is dedicated...
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Sverre Lyngstad (section Knut Hamsun)
translations of and commentaries on the works of Knut Hamsun, which are widely credited for helping to popularise Hamsun's work in the US and UK. Born on 30 April...
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biographies about her life with Knut Hamsun: Regnbuen (The Rainbow) (1953) and Under gullregnen (1959). Marie Hamsun shared her husband's political views...
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the book Den rettspykiatriske erklæring om Knut Hamsun (The Forensic Psychiatric Statement on Knut Hamsun) regarding the medical evaluation they had performed...
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king of Denmark (r. 1182–1202) Knut Wallenberg (1853-1938), Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs and banker Knut Hamsun (1859–1952), Norwegian author Knud...
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Hamsun is a 1996 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Jan Troell, about the later life of the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (Max von Sydow)...
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Russian 1917 silent film directed by Olga Preobrazhenskaya, based on the Knut Hamsun novel Victoria (1935 film), a German film Victoria (1972 film), a Mexican...
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Pan (novel) (category Novels by Knut Hamsun)
Pan is an 1894 novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. He wrote it while living in Paris and in Kristiansand, Norway. It remains one of his most famous...
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Mysteries (novel) (category Novels by Knut Hamsun)
(Norwegian: Mysterier, 1892) is the second novel by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. The community of a small Norwegian coastal town is shaken by the arrival...
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On Overgrown Paths (category Novels by Knut Hamsun)
title of the final novel by Norwegian author and nobel laureate Knut Hamsun. Hamsun's attempt to prove his soundness of mind after his sanity was called...
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Victoria (novel) (category Novels by Knut Hamsun)
Victoria (Norwegian: Victoria. En kjærlighedshistorie, 1898) is a novel by Knut Hamsun. A miller's son, Johannes, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy...
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Victoria (2013 film) (category Films based on works by Knut Hamsun)
the son of a local miller. The film is based on the novel Victoria by Knut Hamsun. It was released in Norway on 1 March 2013. Fridtjov Såheim received...
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world-famous artists who lived here during this period were Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun (the latter was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature). Large areas...
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the work of Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun. In the 1950s, he discovered 70 unknown letters by Hamsun and embarked on a life-long project to gather...
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a graduate of the same acting school in Berlin as Ellinor Hamsun, daughter of Knut Hamsun. In interviews and his memoirs, Tappert did not elaborate on...
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century. Prominent examples include Knut Hamsun's later work, Sigrid Undset, Johan Falkberget, and Olaf Bull. Both Knut Hamsun and Sigrid Undset were awarded...
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Some point to Anton Chekhov's short stories and plays (1881–1904) and Knut Hamsun's Hunger (1890), and Mysteries (1892) as offering glimpses of the use...
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Writers who influenced Laxness include August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht, and Ernest Hemingway...
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an American publisher bowdlerized the George Ergerton translation of Knut Hamsun's Hunger. Lady Chatterley's Lover by English author D. H. Lawrence. An...
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In Wonderland (category Works by Knut Hamsun)
(Norwegian: I Æventyrland) is a travelogue written by Knut Hamsun in 1903. It documents Hamsun's impressions during his visit to the Russian Caucasus,...
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Encyclopedia of the Novel, primarily in the works of Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun – in particular, Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892), Pan (1894) and Victoria...
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Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist and Nazi sympathizer Knut Hamsun in the biopic Hamsun. Throughout the rest of the 1990s, Sydow also appeared in films...
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(1873–1907) absurdist play, Ubu Roi appeared even earlier, in 1896. Knut Hamsun's (1859–1952) Hunger (1890) is a groundbreaking modernist novel and Mysteries...
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