Hamsun

[ hahm-soo n ]

/ ˈhɑm sʊn /

noun

Knut

[knoot] /knut/,1859–1952, Norwegian novelist: Nobel Prize 1920.

Example sentences from the Web for hamsun

In the early eighties, when Hamsun started out for America, the tide of Norwegian immigration was at its height.

Knut Hamsun |Hanna Astrup Larsen
To Hamsun the abstraction called society, which looms so large in the liberal thought of to-day, has no existence.

Knut Hamsun |Hanna Astrup Larsen
Hamsun sometimes resorts to this method, but even then the dead live on in the memory of those who have known them.

Knut Hamsun |Hanna Astrup Larsen
One of Hamsun's most beautiful poems is a homage to Bjrnson.

Knut Hamsun |Hanna Astrup Larsen

Hamsun made up his mind that his wanderings must end and his real work begin, no matter at what cost.

Knut Hamsun |Hanna Astrup Larsen

British Dictionary definitions for hamsun

Hamsun

/ (Norwegian ˈhamsun) /

noun

Knut, (knuːt), pen name of Knut Pedersen. 1859–1952, Norwegian novelist, whose works include The Growth of the Soil (1917): Nobel prize for literature 1920

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