Knut Hamsun died today – 56 years ago

Writer (think: “The Growth of the Soil”) Knut Hamsun was born as Knud Pedersen on August 4, 1859 in Vågå, Gudbrandsdal, Norway. He said, “Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness. A word can be transformed into a colour, light, a smell. It is the writer's task to use it in such a way that it serves, never fails, can never be ignored. The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words. He must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too." [Did you get all of that?]... Mr. Hamsun died on February 19, 1952 in Grimstad, Nørholm, Norway.



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