Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) was a Norwegian writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. A Nazi sympathizer during WWII, he sent his Nobel Prize to Goebbels as a gift and days after Hitler’s death wrote a eulogy for him. The author of more than twenty novels, he was a pioneer of stream of consciousness, influencing a generation of authors—Thomas Mann and Ernest Hemingway among them. The theme of the perpetual wanderer who shows up in small rural communities is at play in novels such as Mysteries, Pan, Under the Autumn Star, The Last Joy, Vagabonds, and Rosa.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Hunger, a novel excerpt, in Stories of the Week: 2017–2018