Word: hamsun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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VAGABONDS-Knut Hamsun - Coward-McCann...
Vagabonds will remind few readers of Author Hamsun's earlier books; its people are neither monumental peasant types nor furious eccentrics, but ordinary voting citizens. Hamsun's 71-year-old creative energy is burning with a low blue flame...
Authoress Sigrid Undset won the Nobel Prize in Literature (1928) with her tril- ogy, Kristin Lavransdatter. She was the third Norwegian to win it. (Others: Bjornstjerne Bjornson, 1903; Knut Hamsun, 1920.) A convert to Roman Catholicism, she was decorated "Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice" by Pope Pius XI. She has also written Jenny...