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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Norway's patriarch of letters, hardbitten Nobel Prizewinner (Growth of the Soil) Knut Hamsun, 80, turned on his Government for continuing to oppose the Nazi invasion. Cried Writer Hamsun in Oslo: "The Government ordered mobilization, then fled. Norwegian youths now die for that 'Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

LOOK BACK ON HAPPINESS - Knut Hamsun-Coward-McCann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Man | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...essence, the "I" who tells Look Back On Happiness is 79-year-old Knut Hamsun himself, as fierce and fine an old man as ever declined to batten on the adulation of fools. And his novel is less a novel than a devoutly unpretentious rec ord of things he values, or despises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Man | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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