Books by Knut Hamsun and Complete Book Reviews
Knut Hamsun, Author Norvik Press $38.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-870041-13-3
As a young man, Norwegian Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize for literature, sojourned in America, where he worked and traveled widely. In this first volume of his correspondence, he feelingly describes his disdain for this ``phi
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Knut Hamsun, Author Fjord Press $21.92 (156p) ISBN 978-0-940242-19-7
In these lesser-known stories by the Norwegian Nobel laureate, Hamsun explores familiar themes of spiritual hunger, youthful searching, madness, illness and death in turn-of-the-century Norway through protagonists whose experiences (and complaints)...
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Knut Hamsun, Author, Tom Geddes, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $14.95 (132p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1321-9
Previously unpublished in this country, this short novel by Hamsun, who won the Nobel Prize in 1920, shows a lighter side of a writer best known for his more nihilistic work. Set in an isolated Norwegian fishing village, the novel is a romantic...
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Knut Hamsun, Author, Sverre Lynstad, Translator, Sverre Lyngstad, Translator , trans. from the Norwegian by Sverre Lyngstad. Green Integer $12.95 (279p) ISBN 978-1-931243-19-3
The Norwegian Hamsun won the 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature on the strength of novels such as Hunger
(1890), Pan
(1894) and his Wanderer trilogy (1906–1912). His reputation plunged after he enthusiastically embraced the Nazi occupation of...
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