Scandinavian Studies 374/Literature
in Translation 274
Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature:
The Twentieth Century.
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Knut
Hamsun (1859-1952)
Hamsun grew up in Northern Norway, and lived and worked in the United states from 1882-1884. He visited Madison and went to seek work with a brother who lived in Elroy, Wisconsin.
Hamsun's debut as a novellist was with Hunger (1890), and it is a landmark of Modernist narrative technique, remarkable for its depiction of the consciousness of a starving man.
Hamusn won the Nobel Prize in 1920. He has been widely translated. Especially recommended are Mysteries (1892) and Pan (1894).
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