Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a leading Norwegian author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920.

Life
Knut Hamsun wwhen natural as Knud Pedersen around Lom within Gudbrandsdalen. He was a quaternary boy of Peder Pedersen & Tora Olsdatter (Garmostrædet). He grew higher inside impoverishment within Hamarøy in Nordland. At 17, he became an learner to a rope-maker, & at all about the equivalent instance he began to write. He spent many years around Us, travelling & working at various jobs, & published his impressions under a title Fra det moderne Amerikas Aandsliv (1889).

Within 1898, Hamsun married Bergliot Goepfert (née Bech), but a marriage ended around 1906. Hamsun so married Marie Andersen (born around 1881) within 1909 & she would become his companion until a prevent of his life. Marie was the young & promising actress once she met Hamsun, however she ended her career & travelled by having him to Hamarøy. It bought a domestic, the idea existence "to earn their living as farmers, with his writing providing some additional income". Nonetheless, when two or three years, it decided to move south, to Larvik.

Within 1918, a few bought Nørholm, an old & somewhat bedraggled manor between Lillesand and Grimstad. A independent home was restored & redecorated. On this text Hamsun can occupy himself writing undisturbed, although he typically visit write withwithin more cities & site (sooner in spartan housing).

Work
He number 1 received wide plaudit by having his 1890 novel Hunger (Sult). the semi-autobiographical function described a immature writer's descent into nigh madness following of hunger & impoverishment. To numbers of, a novel presaged a writings of Franz Kafka & other twentieth-century novelists by owning its internal monologue and off-the-wall logic. More significant works by Hamsun include Pan, Mysteries, and A Incubation of the Soil. Hamsun received a Nobel Prize in literature in 1920. The fifteen-volume edition of his complete works was published around 1954.

Political sympathies
Hamsun was the large advocate of Germany and German culture, as well as a rhetorical opponent of British imperialism and Soviet Russia, and he supported Germany two when you took a First and the Second World War. Despite his huge popularity within Norway & about the world, Hamsun's reputation for the period waned substantially because of his trend lines of Vidkun Quisling's National Socialist government. Resulting the meeting by using Joseph Goebbels in 1943, he sent Goebbels his Nobel Prize medal as a gift. Hamsun besides met by having Adolf Hitler and tried to have him dislodge Josef Terboven from the position of Reichskommissar of Norway.

Fallowing Hitler's death, Hamsun wrote a bit of commemorating however as well ironic words in the leading Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, describing Hitler as a "warrior for mankind" however likewise the "man of small stature".

It has been argued that his "sympathies" were victims of the united states that experienced been occupied. He utilized his status as a human of fame to improve a conditions of his front yard in a period of the occupation.

Fallowing the war, he was confined for many months around a psychiatric hospital. Within 1948 he was fined 325,000 kroner for collaboration, but cleared of any straight Nazi-affiliation. Hamsun himself wrote just about this own experience in the 1949 book, In Overgrown Paths.

A Danish creator Thorkild Hansen investigated a test & wrote the book A Run Against Hamsun (1978), which created a storm within Norway. Among more items Hansen stated: "If you want to meet idiots, go to Norway", since he felt that dealing with an husband such as that was outrageous. Within 1996 the Swedish director Jan Troell based the flick Hamsun in Hansen's book. Inside Hamsun, a actor Max von Sydow plays Knut Hamsun.

Bibliography

Books about Hamsun
Ferguson, Robert. Enigma:The Life of Knut Hamsun Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York: 1987. ISBN 0374520933 Humpal, Martin. ''A Roots of Modernist Narrative: Knut Hamsun's Novels Hunger, Mysteries & Pan International Specialized Book Services. 1999 ISBN 8256011785 Kolloen, Ingar Sletten. Svermeren 2003 Biography Kolloen, Ingar Sletten. Erobreren'' 2004 Biography

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