Knut Hamsun

Person · Open Library

Born

1859

Died

1952

Works

270

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Norway

Active from

1859-08-04

Active to

1952-02-19

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

257

Total plays

5,277

Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian author. He was praised by King Haakon VII of Norway as Norway's soul. In 1920, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for the epic, Growth of the Soil. He insisted that the main object of modern literature ought to be the intricacies of the human mind, that writers should describe the "whisper of blood, and the pleading of bone marrow". Hamsun's literary debut was the 1890 psychological novel <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Knut+Hamsun">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Sequence of the Human Genome

   · 2001 · cited 10,201x

2. The Genome Sequence of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>

   · 2000 · cited 4,817x

3. Tumour exosome integrins determine organotropic metastasis

   · 2015 · cited 4,554x

4. LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

   · 2019 · cited 3,484x

5. Numerically stable algorithm for discrete-ordinate-method radiative transfer in multiple scattering and emitting layered media

   · 1988 · cited 2,797x

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Quotes

• “Instead of founding an intellectual elite, America has established a mulatto studfarm.”
• “Nothing helped; I was fading helplessly away with open eyes, staring straight at the ceiling. Finally I stuck my forefinger in my mouth and took to sucking on it. Something began stirring in my brain, some thought in there scrambling to get out, a stark-staring mad idea: what if I gave a bite? And without a moment's hesitation I squeezed my eyes shut and clenched my teeth together. I jumped up. I was finally awake.”
• “And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood.”
• “In old age... we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.”
• “It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him. . . .”

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🏅Nobel Prize

• The Nobel Prize in Literature1920

  “for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil”

Official website

The Hamsun Centre | The National Center for Author and Nobel Prize Winner Knut Hamsun

Visit The Hamsun Centre in Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun's childhood village – Hamarøy. The center is located in the middle of the landscape that inspired Hamsun to write world-famous books such as Pan, Market Crop and Landstrykere., Visit The Hamsun Centre in Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun's childhood village – Hamarøy. The center is located in the middle of the landscape that inspired Hamsun to write world-famous books such as Pan, Market Crop and Landstrykere.

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