Geburtsdatum | Donnerstag, 04. August 1859 |
Geburtsort | Union_between_Sweden_and_Norway |
Todesort | Nørholm |
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Beschreibung | Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment. He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, works of non-fiction and some essays. |
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
