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Danish artist and resistance leader
- Knud Pedersen (26 December 1925, in Grenaa – 18 December 2014, in Gentofte) was a Danish artist and resistance leader. His career as a public figure started in 1942, when he and seven other young Danes founded the resistance group, Churchill Klubben (The Churchill Club).
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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.
Knud Pedersen (26 December 1925, in Grenaa – 18 December 2014, in Gentofte) was a Danish artist and resistance leader. His career as a public figure started in 1942, when he and seven other young Danes founded the resistance group, Churchill Klubben (The Churchill Club ).
Knut Pedersen Hamsun. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1920. Born: 4 August 1859, Lom, Norway. Died: 19 February 1952, Grimstad, Norway. Residence at the time of the award: Norway. Prize motivation: “for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil ”. Language: Norwegian. Prize share: 1/1.
Knut Hamsun (born Knud Pedersen) was a Norwegian writer, poet, dramatist, and social critic. Considered by some as the father of modern literature, his works spanned over 70 years in a myriad of subjects, environments, and perspectives.
Novels of Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (born Knud Pedersen), include Hunger (1890) and The Growth of the Soil (1917). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1920. He insisted on the intricacies of the human mind as the main object of modern literature to describe the "whisper of the blood, and the pleading of the bone marrow."
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- February 19, 1952
- August 4, 1859
The narrator, Knut Pedersen (Hamsun's real name), is an unsimple character in search of the simple life, which he hopes to attain by wandering round the Norwegian countryside doing such work as he can find.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 was awarded to Knut Pedersen Hamsun "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil "
