Bøker av Knut Hamsun

The Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun's Hunger, an influential work of twentieth-century modern literature, is now a Canon

The midnight sun illumines more than fishing and fjords in this remote northern Norwegian village. In fact, half-baked schemes and hilarity abound. Big Ove Rolandsen, telegraph operator, mad scientist, and local Casanova, trades wits, fists, and kisses with a host of quirky neighbors. He serenades the curate's wife and fights a drunken giant, but taking on Trader Mack, the town's fish-glue magnate, is a more difficult matter. Knut Hamsun, author of the acclaimed Hunger and winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature, renders the dreams and dramas of these townsfolk with a delightfully light touch. Robert Bly has written that Hamsun "has a magnifying glass on his eye, like a jeweler's," and Dreamers gleams like a perfect, semi-precious stone.

Nordahl Grieg om Hamsun: "Han ligger og våger over alt, sørger for alt, så ømt bekymret for det mindste i sproget, han følger hver lille bisætning med utrættelig kærlighed, leger og pusler med den, løfter den op som en myre på en træpind, ler og godter sig, sætter den ned og lader den løbe videre! Hans øjne standser ved en kvist dernede, der ligger nu denne kvist! siger han og stryger den over barken." Knut Hamsun modtog Nobelprisen i Litteratur for Markens grøde i 1920.