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Knut Hamsun

Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun, Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1952)

Knut Hamsun 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.

4 August 1859

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