Knut Hamsun: Dreamer & Dissenter

by Ingar Sletten Kolloen

An absorbing biography of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun, based on a wealth of previously unavailable sources

Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, was a man both brilliant and controversial. Lauded for his literary achievements by Hemingway, Gide, Hesse, and others, he also provoked outrage for his open collaboration with the Fascists during the German occupation of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300123566
• ISBN13: 9780300123562
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.4"