Knut Hamsun
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Knut Hamsun (August 4 1859 – February 19 1952) was a leading Norwegian author best known for his 1890 novel Hunger (Sult), a semi-autobiographical work described a young and egocentric writer's descent into near madness as a result of hunger and poverty in the Norwegian capital of Kristiania. To many, the novel presaged the writings of Franz Kafka and other twentieth-century novelists with its internal monologue and bizarre logic.
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