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Knut Hamsun

Born

in Lom, Gudbrandsdal, Norway

August 04, 1859

Died

February 19, 1952

Genre

Fiction

Influences

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindbe ...more

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Novels of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (born Knud Pedersen), include Hunger (1890) and The Growth of the Soil (1917). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920.

He insisted on the intricacies of the human mind as the main object of modern literature to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow." Hamsun pursued his literary program, debuting in 1890 with the psychological novel Hunger. ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 121,115 ratings · 10,122 reviews · 721 distinct works • Similar authors

	Hunger 4.04 avg rating — 65,333 ratings — published 1890 — 874 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growth of the Soil 4.22 avg rating — 13,651 ratings — published 1917 — 90 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pan 3.83 avg rating — 12,401 ratings — published 1894 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mysteries 4.02 avg rating — 8,277 ratings — published 1892	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Victoria 3.76 avg rating — 8,657 ratings — published 1898 — 210 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wanderer 3.90 avg rating — 1,508 ratings — published 1909 — 144 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Overgrown Paths by Knut Hamsun, Sverre Lyngstad (Translator) 3.72 avg rating — 1,370 ratings — published 1949 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Under the Autumn Star by Knut Hamsun, Oliver Stallybrass (Translator), Gunnvor Stallybrass (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 1,141 ratings — published 1906 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wayfarers 4.16 avg rating — 964 ratings — published 1927 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dreamers by Knut Hamsun, Tom Geddes (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 1,024 ratings — published 1904 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Knut Hamsun

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4.22 avg rating — 13,763 ratings

Vandrer-trilogien (3 books)
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Knut Hamsun,

Sverre Lyngstad (Translator)

3.84 avg rating — 3,079 ratings

August-trilogien (3 books)
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4.14 avg rating — 1,497 ratings

Benoni & Rosa (2 books)
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3.70 avg rating — 1,105 ratings

Konene ved vannposten (1 book)
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Gunnvor & Oliver Stallybrass (Translator)

3.88 avg rating — 311 ratings

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Quotes by Knut Hamsun (?)

“...I will exile my thoughts if they think of you again, and I will rip my lips out if they say your name once more. Now if you do exist, I will tell you my final word in life or in death, I tell you goodbye.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

tags: abandonment, frustration, torment

386 likes

“I love three things, I then say. I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth.

And which do you love best?

The dream.”
― Knut Hamsun, Pan

280 likes

“I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.”
― Knut Hamsun, Hunger

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Polls

February 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Hard Times by Charles Dickens, 1854, 353 pages

56 votes, 21.6%

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1478, 504 pages

51 votes, 19.7%

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, 1826, 410 pages

34 votes, 13.1%

Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, 1782, 448 pages

30 votes, 11.6%

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 1842, 464 pages

25 votes, 9.7%

Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1862, 455 pages

22 votes, 8.5%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, 1862, 244 pages

20 votes, 7.7%

The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner, 1883, 304 pages

12 votes, 4.6%

Mysteries by Knut Hamsun, 1892, 348 pages

9 votes, 3.5%

259 total votes

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