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Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, was both a brilliant and controversial man. This biography offers a nuanced account of this morally ambiguous man. Drawing on Hamsun's extraordinary private archives and on his psychoanalyst's notes, it delves into Hamsun's personal life and character.

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Knut Hamsun

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    A Hardback by Ingar Sletten Kolloen, Erik Skuggevik, Deborah Dawkin

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      Publisher Yale University Press
      Published 5 September 2009
      ISBN-13 9780300123562
      978-0300123562
      ISBN-10 0300123566
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (1859-1952), winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, was both a brilliant and controversial man. This biography offers a nuanced account of this morally ambiguous man. Drawing on Hamsun's extraordinary private archives and on his psychoanalyst's notes, it delves into Hamsun's personal life and character.

      Trade Review
      “ [a] daring, frightening book.”—Los Angeles Times * Los Angeles Times *

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