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August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952 - Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate in Literature for 1920.
He was the fourth child of the village tailor Peter Pedersen. He lived in poverty, from the age of nine he worked in his uncle's office, then the years of wandering began (from 1873), during which he changed many occupations. He began to write at the age of 17. The first book “Mysterious Man. A Nordland Love Story "appeared in 1877. In his youth he traveled a lot, having visited, in particular, the United States. After 1888 he settled in Copenhagen. In 1890, Hamsun published the pioneering psychological novel The Hunger, which brought him fame.
In the 1890s and especially in the 1900s, Hamsun was one of the most popular writers and playwrights of modernism in the world, was translated several times and was very famous in Russia. The first edition of the novel "Hunger" 1890 In 1898, Hamsun married Bergliot Beh - this marriage lasted eight years. In 1909 he married a second time, to the actress Marie Andersen. After the wedding, Marie left her career and stayed with Hamsun until the end of his life. In 1918, the couple bought the Norholm estate, where Hamsun would spend the rest of his life. In 1920, Hamsun was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for the monumental work "Juices of the Earth". In 1943, Hamsun handed over his Nobel laureate medal to the Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich, Goebbels. After Hitler came to power in Germany and during the Second World War, Hamsun, who had previously systematically preached German culture and opposed Anglo-Saxon, sided with the Nazis and supported Vidkun Quisling. However, seeing all the atrocities and crimes of Quisling's collaborationist regime, the writer became disillusioned with him. During his visit to Germany in 1943, Hamsun, having met with Hitler, demanded that he rid Norway of Quisling and Terboven, which infuriated the Fuhrer. After Hitler's death, Hamsun wrote an obituary in which he called the Nazi leader "a fighter for the rights of the peoples", although his relatives dissuaded him from taking this step. After the end of the war, Hamsun was put on trial. He escaped imprisonment due to his advanced age, but was fined in a civil action. He later described the trial in the story "On Overgrown Paths." The writer's son Arild served as a war correspondent in a special propaganda platoon, which in 1943 entered the special propaganda regiment of the SS "Kurt Eggers" .
After the war, Hamsun lived in a nursing home for some time, and in 1950 he returned to Norholm. The writer died on February 19, 1952. The complete collection of his works was published two years after his death.

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