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Hamsun

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Ham·sun  (hämsn, -sn), Knut Pen name of Knut Pedersen. 1859-1952.
Norwegian writer whose novels include Hunger (1890) and The Growth of the Soil (1917). He won the 1920 Nobel Prize for literature.

Hamsun (Norwegian) [ˈhamsun]
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(Biographies / Hamsun, Knut (1859-1952) M, Norwegian, WRITING: novelist) Knut, (knuːt), pen name of Knut Pedersen. 1859- 1952, Norwegian novelist, whose works include The Growth of the Soil (1917): Nobel prize for literature 1920
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Noun1.HamsunHamsun - Norwegian writer of novels (1859-1952)


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Yet, oddiy enough, the company was founded by two Norwegians, Henrik Hamsun and Knut Munch.
And in Norway, the 1920 Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun was an unwavering supporter of Hitler.
Norway's Hamsun hated the British; the worst insult he thought to hurl at them was that they were "Protestant Jews.
 
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