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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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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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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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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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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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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Sydow as Knut Hamsun Ghita Nørby as Marie Hamsun Anette Hoff as Ellinor Hamsun Gard B. Eidsvold as Arild Hamsun Eindride Eidsvold as Tore Hamsun Åsa Söderling...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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Modernist literature was introduced to Norway through the literature of Knut Hamsun and Sigbjørn Obstfelder in the 1890s. In the 1930s Emil Boyson, Gunnar...
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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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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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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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Dreamers (novel) (category Novels by Knut Hamsun)
also published in English as Mothwise) is a novel by Knut Hamsun from 1904. The novel is among Hamsun's last set in Nordland and it contains many comical...
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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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has written ten original radio plays and adapted for radio works by Knut Hamsun, Henrik Ibsen, Halldor Laxness, A.R. Luria and Elmore Leonard, all for...
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