Nordland and Tromssa as a peddler and tramp. He returned to Hamarøy in theįollowing year, and held various jobs. In 1873 Hamsun ranĪway to Lom, where he was employed as an apprentice in a shop, and fell Travelling school, he had no other formal education. Works to his ill treatment and his merciless taskmaster.ĭuring this period Hamsun turned to books to relieve hisįeelings of loneliness. ( Knut Hamsun, Novelist: A Critical Assessment by Sverre Lyngstad 2005, p. Read books for his uncle and his pietist brethren. Writing, Olsen would rap his knuckles with a long ruler. Help him in numerous ways, to pay the debt. Started to work for Olsen, keep the post office accounts, chop wood and

Hamsun was not allowed to play with the other children but he Victim of paralytic illness and claimed that the Pedersens owed him His brother-in-law Hans Olsen, who ran the village library and post There Peder Petersen took charge a farm, owned by Three the family moved to the town of Hamarøy, some 100 miles north of Tailor, and Tora (Olsdatter Garmotraedet) Pedersen. Instantly, and felt nauseated.' (from Hunger, translated by Robert Bly, 1967)Ĭentral Norway, the fourth son of Peder Petersen, a skilled itinerant Turned toward me, her eyes were still full of sausage. Yellow tooth looked like a finger sticking out of her jaw, and as she Her face made an instant and revolting impression on me – the long In the nervous and excitable state I was in, Was a woman with a basket on her arm, debating about some sausage forĭinner as I went past, she looked up at me. Overwhelmed me, I became unusually serene, and started to hum for pure Just a little, on such a clear day! The mood of the gay morning Intellectuals and writers who supported the Soviet Union and Stalin.Īfter the war Hamsun was consequently ostracized as a traitor. Before and during World War II the authorĮmbraced the Nazi ideology. Intense story of a starving writer, which has attracted readers since Most famous novels include Sult (1890, The Hunger), an Poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) - pseudonym of Knut Pedersen A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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