Word: krakmo
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Knut Hamsun, as everyone knows, won the Nobel Prize for 1920 with his novel The Growth of the Soil. Peder Johannesen, farmer of Krakmo, Norway, never won any prizes. He was simply an ingenious and diligent hayseed who installed turbines and other complex apparatus by himself, who inspired a great novelist with the dignity of certain agricultural artisans. Novelist Hamsun derived Isak, the hero of his prize novel, from Peder. Peder died last week...
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