![]() ![]() ![]() His literary breakthrough came in 1890 with Hunger – a book that many regard as one of the most important novels of Norwegian and European literary history. ![]() With his literary pursuit of the unconscious life of the mind, of “the meanderings of thoughts and feelings in the blue”, he was to achieve recognition as one of the first great modernists in European literary history. The landscape and environment in Nordland became the source of many of his stories.īut Hamsun was a vagabond on earth. Hamsun left Nordland when he was 20 but returned to Hamarøy as an established author, living at Skogheim farm from 1911 to 1917 with his wife Marie and their children. Hamarøy became Hamsun’s childhood realm: here he grew up, and here the feeling of home took root – patriotism on a small scale. Three years later the family moved to Hamarøy in Nordland. Knut Hamsun was born as Knud Pedersen in the Gudbrandsdalen district of Norway on 4 August 1859. ![]()
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