Hunger, Paperback/Knut Hamsun

Description HUNGER by Knut Hamsun...the novel that inspired some of the world's greatest writers. "Hamsun taught me to write." ERNEST HEMINGWAY "The whole modern school of fiction in the twentieth century stems from Hamsun." ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER "Please God, please Knut Hamsun, don't desert me now." JOHN FANTE, Dreams of Bunker Hill "I told her that Knut Hamsun had been the world's greatest writer." CHARLES BUKOWSKI, Women About the Author Knut Hamsun, born in Norway in 1859, was a novelist, poet, and dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in 1920. Many believe the modern novel was born with the 1890 publication of Hamsun's masterwork HUNGER. Some of the world's most celebrated authors, including Ernest Hemingway and Franz Kafka, have cited Hamsun as a major influence. He passed away in 1952 at age 92.