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    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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  • 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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    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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    Hamarøy. 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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    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 in Northern Norway dedicated to the life and work of...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • to: Sult (novel) or Hunger, an 1890 novel by Knut Hamsun Sult (film) or Hunger, a 1966 adaptation of Hamsun's novel, directed by Henning Carlsen Sult, Albania...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • (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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    Jakob Klukstad (1705 in Lom – 1773), a Norwegian wood carver and painter Knut Hamsun (1859 in Lom – 1952), a novelist, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature...
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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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    (1821–67) (Les Fleurs du mal), Rimbaud (1854–91) (Illuminations, 1874); Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) (Hunger, 1890); August Strindberg (1849–1912), especially...
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    Writers who influenced Laxness included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway...
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    Nørholm (category Knut Hamsun)
    because of one of its previous owners was Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun. Nørholm was one of the more notable and historic farms of the traditional...
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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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