Knut Hamsun Stickers
Description: Norvegian Knut Hamsun was always seen as a great writer. In Shis novels, he introduced and mastered stream of consciousness and monologue and influenced a wide array of writers, from Mann to Kafka or Gorky to Hemingway. His support to the Nazi regime casts a dark shadow over his brilliant opus.
Description: Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), a Norwegian writer, was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. grew up in poverty in Nordland. Earned his livelihood as a road worker, a stonemason, a junior teacher, and a tram driver while traveling America. The novel Sult (1890) [Hunger] and Pan (1894) led to Hamsun’s literary breakthrough and Sult is regarded as the first genuinely modern novel in Norwegian literature. Recreated image based on a portrait by an unknown photographer.
