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Knut Hamsun

Died in 1952

Knut Hamsun was born Knud Pedersen on 4 August 1859 in Lom and grew up poor in Hamarøy, in Nordland. He was an apprentice shoemaker, a road labourer, a schoolteacher, and spent a few years in America as a tram conductor. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1920, he supported the German occupation and in 1943 gave his medal to Goebbels. Placed under psychiatric observation after the war, sentenced in 1948 to a heavy fine that ruined him, he died on 19 February 1952 near Grimstad.

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