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Hamsun, Knut(orig. Knut Pedersen Hamsund)

Born: 1859 AD
Died: 1952 AD, at 93 years of age.

Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Dramatist, Novelists, Poets

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Norwegian author

 

wrote novels "Hunger" 1890, "Mysteries" 1892, "Growth of the Soil" 1917, "August" trilogy ("Wayfarers" 1927, "August" 1930, "The Road Leads On" 1933)

 

Nobel Prize in Literature 1920






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Page last updated: 1:24pm, 25th Jul '06

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