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	Knut Hamsun og Nørholm
		Kildene er delvis Marie Hamsun, delvis annen litteratur, dagspresse m.v.
		Fra Arild Hamsun: Om Knut Hamsun og Nørholm:
		Fra Birgit Gjernes: MARIE HAMSUN - Et livsbilde:
	www.hamsun.no /omnorholm.html (57 words)

	Knut Hamsun
		Knut Hamsun was born in Lom in the Gudbrandsdalen Valley in central Norway, as the fourth son of Peder Petersen, a skilled itinerant tailor, and Tora (Olsdatter Garmotraedet) Pedersen.
		Hamsun was not allowed to play with the other children but he started to work for Olsen, keep the post office accounts, and chop wood, to pay the debt to him,.
		Hamsun was considered eccentric by Norwegian immigrants, but the Unitarian minister and writer Kristofer Janson allowed Hamsun to use his large library.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /khamsun.htm (2255 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Knut Hamsun
		Knut Hamsun (August 4 1859 – February 19 1952) was a leading Norwegian author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1920.
		Knut Hamsun was born as Knud Pedersen in Lom, Gudbrandsdal, Norway.
		Hamsun was a prominent advocate of Germany and German culture, as well as a rhetorical opponent of British imperialism and the Soviet Union, and he supported Germany both during First and the Second World War.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Knut_Hamsun (1114 words)

	Knut Hamsun Online - Books, Quotes, Photos, Biography and much more
		Knut Hamsun is among the most important and influencial European writers in the last century.
		Among Hamsun's most famous novels is Hunger, an intense story of a starving writer, which has attracted readers since its publication in 1890.
		The purpose of this website is to provide information about Knut Hamsun to help you discover his wonderful books.
	www.hamsun.dk /uk (309 words)

	Knut Hamsun Books (Used, New, Out-of-Print) - Alibris
		In this epic, semi-autobiographical novel of poverty and despair, Hamsun's narrator is a poor writer who depends upon the sale of articles and stories to the press for his living.
		The first in Hamsun's series of "Polden" novels, WAYFARERS recounts the wanderings of Edevart and August, two young men who leave their Norwegian hometown of Polden and travel restlessly through Scandinavia, returning frequently but unable to settle down for good.
		Written by Hamsun when he was 90 years old, ON OVERGROWN PATHS is a diary of his experiences when, in 1947, he was arrested and hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic because he was a Nazi sympathizer during World War II.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Knut%20Hamsun (1225 words)

	Knut Hamsun - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hamsun, Knut, 1859-1952, Norwegian author, a pioneer in the development of the modern novel.
		Hamsun's Nordland - Norway's arctic north cast a spell upon the youthful Knut Hamsun, the novelist who would win the nobel prize for his lyrical portrayal of this majestic landscape and its people.(Biography)
		Failed Seductions Crises of Masculinity in Knut Hamsun's Pan and Knut Faldbakken's Glahn.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Hamsun-K.html (719 words)

	KNUT HAMSUN
		Knut Hamsun was born on 4 August 1859 in Garmo, a remote mountain hamlet on the western shore of Lake Vågå.
		Hamsun had packed his writing materials and gone off to the Ernst Hotel at Kristiansand in order to be able to work undisturbed.
		Hamsun could busy himself with his writing undisturbed, in a special "writing hut" of his own a short distance from the farm, but it was as though his migratory youth had established a pattern in him it was impossible to abandon.
	www.gonorway.no /go/hamsun.html (3575 words)

	Steven Holl Architects - Knut Hamsun Museum :: arcspace.com
		Knut Hamsun, Norway's most inventive 20th century writer, fabricated new forms of expression in his first novel Hunger, going on in later novels such as Pan, Mysteries, and Growth of the Soil to achieve the foundation of a truly modern school of fiction.
		Hamsun's writings have been particularly inspiring to filmmakers, which is evident in the more than 17 films existent.
		Historical museum for writer Knut Hamsun will include 300 square meters of exhibition areas, a library and reading room, cafe as well as a 250 seat auditorium furnished with the latest film projection equipment.
	www.arcspace.com /architects/Steven_Holl/hamsun_museum (364 words)

	Knut Hamsun Biography and Summary
		Knut Hamsun was born on Aug. 4, 1859, in Lom (Gudbrandsdal).
		Knut Hamsun is Norway's best-known novelist and one of the major world writers of modern times.
		Knut Hamsun(August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a leading Norwegian author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1920.
	www.bookrags.com /Knut_Hamsun (173 words)

	Jens Bjorneboe: Knut Hamsun's Centennial
		Hamsun was the first person shameless enough to wait so long to leave our vale of tears that his death occurred practically on the eve of his hundredth birthday.
		The story of what happened to Hamsun in his old age is too well-known and too dismal to rake up; it was a tragic and wholly clear consequence of a genius's misrelation to a self-satisfied and intellectually democratic age, and it showed up a people's unworthiness and immaturity in the glare of floodlights.
		Hamsun carried out his own destiny with the same genius with which he wrote his books; the civic humiliation of the last years was the final fabulous capstone to his work.
	home.att.net /~emurer/texts/digter.htm (1434 words)

	Knut Hamsun - Biography
		Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) was born in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway, and grew up in poverty in Hamarøy in Nordland.
		Hamsun's work is determined by a deep aversion to civilization and the belief that man's only fulfilment lies with the soil.
		Hamsun's admiration for Germany, which was of long standing, made him sympathetic toward the Nazi invasion of Norway in 1940.
	nobelprize.org /nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1920/hamsun-bio.html (409 words)

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		The authorities resorted to a judicial observation process that concluded that the old man had suffered from «permanently_impaired_mental_faculties»"permanently impaired mental faculties" during the occupation, and that for this reason he should not be made made legally responsible for his actions according to Section 86 of the Penal Code.
		Hamsun shook up the special Norwegian myth of the Great Poet, which had developed historically in parallel with the creation of the modern Norwegian nation.
		In Hamsun’s political mythology, Germany was the young nation with the legitimate demands of youth for display and development: Great Britain represented the decrepitude of age, that employs every means to keep youth in check.
	www.uib.no /elin/elpub/uibmag/grafikk/eng-96/hamsun.htm (2216 words)

	Knut Hamsun
		In Hamsun’s work we see the city of Christiania, we feel its physical and spiritual climate, Hamsun mentions names of streets and buildings, but at the same time the reader realizes that the hero is as far removed from his surroundings as if he were in a foreign land.
		Hamsun’s favourite hero is a young man in his late twenties or early thirties, rash, good-natured, with no plans for the future, always anticipating some happy chance, yet at the same time resigned and melancholy.
		Hamsun is less popular in the United States than in Europe, but European writers know that he is the father of the modern school of literature in his every aspect, his subjectiveness, his fragmentariness, his use of flashbacks, his lyricism.
	www.supered.co.uk /hamsun.html (4068 words)

	Knut Hamsun Linkpage
		There are those who would hold that the name of Knut Hamsun should appear prominently on any list of "great Norwegians"-- for he was a Norwegian, and his literary works reflected genius and artistry.
		At the war's end, Hamsun, once a hero to Norway, was convicted in connection with his pro-Nazi activities and heavily fined -- being spared imprisonment undoubtedly in deference to his literary contributions and age.
		Hamsun is here acknowledged because he was one of three Norwegians to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
	www.mnc.net /norway/hamsun.htm (585 words)

	Hamsun at MSN Shopping
		Norwegian Knut Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1920.
		More 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject poverty, hunger and despair of a young writer struggling to achieve self-discovery and its ultimate artistic expression.
		More Glaede) appears at an important transition point in Hamsun's career, as he moved away from his intense observations of individual characters to focus on a broader canvas of small town and farm life social units of the Norwegian culture.
	shopping.msn.com /results/shp/?text=Hamsun (801 words)

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