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Knut Hamsun

Also known as Knut Pedersen Hamsun, Hamsun

Norwegian novelist (1859–1952)

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Knut Hamsun was a Norwegian novelist who lived from 1859 to 1952 and is considered one of the most important figures in modern literature, known for pioneering new psychological and experimental approaches to writing. His work profoundly influenced twentieth-century fiction, though his legacy is complicated by his support for Nazi Germany during World War II.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1859
Died: 1952
Works: 270

Top works

August
Viktorie
מסתורין
Hunger
Under høststjaernen

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Norway
Active from: 1859-08-04
Active to: 1952-02-19

Discography

Bjørnstad/Paus/Hamsun1982

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 257
Total plays: 5,277

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,177x
The Genome Sequence of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
· 2000 · cited 4,802x
Tumour exosome integrins determine organotropic metastasis
· 2015 · cited 4,466x
LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products
· 2019 · cited 3,303x
Numerically stable algorithm for discrete-ordinate-method radiative transfer in multiple scattering and emitting layered media
· 1988 · cited 2,782x

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Quotes

“Instead of founding an intellectual elite, America has established a mulatto studfarm.”
“Nothing helped; I was fading helplessly away with open eyes, staring straight at the ceiling. Finally I stuck my forefinger in my mouth and took to sucking on it. Something began stirring in my brain, some thought in there scrambling to get out, a stark-staring mad idea: what if I gave a bite? And without a moment's hesitation I squeezed my eyes shut and clenched my teeth together. I jumped up. I was finally awake.”
“And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.”
“In old age... we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.”
“It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him. . . .”

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Official website

The Hamsun Centre | The National Center for Author and Nobel Prize Winner Knut Hamsun

Visit The Hamsun Centre in Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun's childhood village – Hamarøy. The center is located in the middle of the landscape that inspired Hamsun to write world-famous books such as Pan, Market Crop and Landstrykere., Visit The Hamsun Centre in Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun's childhood village – Hamarøy. The center is located in the middle of the landscape that inspired Hamsun to write world-famous books such as Pan, Market Crop and Landstrykere.

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Wikidata facts

Official website: hamsunsenteret.no/no
Image: Portrett av Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) (cropped).jpg

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Commons category: Knut Hamsun
date of birth: 1859-08-04
date of death: 1952-02-19
Commons gallery: Knut Hamsun
Commons Creator page: Knut Hamsun
name in native language: Knut Hamsun
birth name: Knut Pedersen Hamsun
start of work period: 1877-00-00
end of work period: 1949-00-00
P8168: International Standard Musical Work Code

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Works in European collections

16 objects attributed to Knut Hamsun, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Letter from Knut Hamsun to Gerhart Hauptmann

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Knut Hamsun (/ˈhɑːmsʊn/; 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 than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment. He published more than 23 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, works of non-fiction and some essays.

Hamsun is considered "one of the most influential and innovative literary stylists of the past hundred years" (ca. 1890–1990). He pioneered psychological literature with techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue, and influenced authors such as Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Maxim Gorky, Stefan Zweig, Henry Miller, Hermann Hesse, John Fante, James Kelman, Charles Bukowski and Ernest Hemingway. Isaac Bashevis Singer called Hamsun "the father of the modern school of literature in his every aspect—his subjectiveness, his fragmentariness, his use of flashbacks, his lyricism. The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun". Since 1916, several of Hamsun's works have been adapted into motion pictures. On 4 August 2009, the Knut Hamsun Centre was opened in Hamarøy Municipality.