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more general categories information about this item 10. Noble Prize 10. Noble Prize Literature (114) 11. Award Year 11. Award Year 1920s (54) 1920 (5) 12. Winner Type 12. Winner Type Person (904) 13. Gender 13. Gender Male (853) 14. Birth Year 14. Birth Year 1850s (38) 1859 (5) 15. Place of Birth 15. Place of Birth Europe (459) Europe, Nordic countries (56) Norway (12) Vågå (1) 16. Death Year 16. Death Year 1950s (45) 1952 (2) 17. Place of Death 17. Place of Death Europe (331) Europe, Nordic countries (49) Norway (8) Grimstad (1) 19. Given Name 19. Given Name E-K (339) K (30) 20. Family Name 20. Family Name E-K (239) H (72) 23. Religion 23. Religion z-Missing value reason (465) Source data not available (465) 24. Age at Award Time 24. Age at Award Time 60 - 69 (252) 62 (32) 32. Occupations 32. Occupations Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations (123) Media and Communication Workers (117) Writers and Editors (101) Writers and Authors (101) 34. Citizens 34. Citizens Europe (450) Europe, Nordic countries (59) Norway (13) complete name: Knut Pedersen Hamsun nobel prize: literature award year: 1920 prize share: Prize share: 1/1 rational: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 was awarded to Knut Pedersen Hamsun "for his monumental work, <I>Growth of the Soil</I>." biography: Biography laureate facts: Facts birth name: Knut Pedersen Hamsun given name: Knut family name: Hamsun occupation: screenwriter occupation: writer occupation: poet occupation: novelist notable work: Hunger description: Knut Pedersen Hamsun was a major 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 the subject, perspective and environment. He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, and some essays. The young Hamsun objected to realism and naturalism. He argued that the main object of modernist literature should be the intricacies of the human mind, that writers should describe the "whisper of blood, and the pleading of bone marrow". Hamsun is considered the "leader of the Neo-Romantic revolt at the turn of the 20th century", with works such as Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892), Pan (1894), and Victoria (1898). His later works—in particular his "Nordland novels"—were influenced by the Norwegian new realism, portraying everyday life in rural Norway and often employing local dialect, irony, and humour. Hamsun is considered to be "one of the most influential and innovative literary stylists of the past hundred years" (ca. 1890-1990). He pioneered psychological literature with techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue, and influenced authors such as Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Maxim Gorky, Stefan Zweig, Henry Miller, Hermann Hesse, and Ernest Hemingway. Isaac Bashevis Singer called Hamsun "the father of the modern school of literature in his every aspect—his subjectiveness, his fragmentariness, his use of flashbacks, his lyricism. The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun". On August 4, 2009, the Knut Hamsun Centre was opened in Hamarøy. Since 1916, several of Hamsun's works have been adapted into motion pictures. image copyright: Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive. image citation: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1920. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1920/summary/> date birth: 1859 date death: 1952 usual name: Knut Hamsun
