Nobel Prize winning author Knut Hamsun is recognised as one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century.
Born in 1859 in Norway, Knut Hamsun is the author of Mysteries, Victoria, The Wanderer, The Women at the Pump, Tales of Loss, and more. Growth of the Soil is his best known novel which sees the wanderer from his earlier tale come to work on the land. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920.