Hamsun
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- proper noun
- Working as a streetcar conductor, Hamsun would have experienced urban life as few other modern writers have.
- Hamsun's novel
- Hamsun's protagonist
- Hamsun's experience
Examples
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After the war, the eighty-six-year-old Hamsun was considered a traitor and was prosecuted before the High Court.
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Lars Frode Larsen, in his recent dissertation on Hamsun's early years, gives the most thorough biographical account of the period.
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As Donald Riechel notes, "nothing about Hamsun allows for an either-or in his life or in his fiction."
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In his opening remarks, Hamsun discusses his impressions of the typical American character in this way:
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Their assignment was to ascertain Hamsun's competence to stand trial for treason.
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The Norwegian writer Hamsun won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 for his novel 'Growth of the Soil.'
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Many consider Hamsun to be one of the most influential figures in modern literature.
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In his book 'Hunger,' Hamsun explores themes of existential despair and hunger for meaning.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hamsun is the pen name of the Norwegian writer Knut Pedersen, and he took it from a place or farm name as many Norwegians do; a helpful way to remember this is to think of it as a chosen family name. So, Hamsun now stands for that famous novelist who wrote 'Hunger' and 'Growth of the Soil'.