WRITER

Knut Hamsun

1859 - 1952

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Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to consciousness, subject, perspective and environment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Knut Hamsun has received more than 1,088,252 page views. His biography is available in 102 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). Knut Hamsun is the 86th most popular writer (up from 93rd in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Norway (down from 7th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Norwegian Writer.

Knut Hamsun is most famous for his novel Hunger, which tells the story of a starving writer in 19th century Christiania.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 77.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 102

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 16.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Knut Hamsun ranks 86 out of 7,302. Before him are Hesiod, Henrik Ibsen, François Rabelais, Miyamoto Musashi, Isaac Asimov, and Daniel Defoe. After him are Pablo Neruda, Giorgio Vasari, José Saramago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Henry David Thoreau, and Jack London.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1859, Knut Hamsun ranks 5. Before him are Wilhelm II, German Emperor, Pierre Curie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Henri Bergson. After him are L. L. Zamenhof, Edmund Husserl, John Dewey, Svante Arrhenius, Alfred Dreyfus, Georges Seurat, and Yuan Shikai. Among people deceased in 1952, Knut Hamsun ranks 2. Before him is Maria Montessori. After him are Eva Perón, George VI, John Dewey, Chaim Weizmann, Alexandra Kollontai, Wilm Hosenfeld, Paul Éluard, Karen Horney, Sveinn Björnsson, and Benedetto Croce.

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In Norway

Among people born in Norway, Knut Hamsun ranks 8 out of 1,039. Before him are Roald Amundsen (1872), Ragnar Lodbrok (850), Harald V of Norway (1937), Edvard Grieg (1843), Henrik Ibsen (1828), and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (1945). After him are Niels Henrik Abel (1802), Fridtjof Nansen (1861), Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832), Harald Fairhair (850), Erik the Red (950), and Queen Sonja of Norway (1937).

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Among WRITERS In Norway

Among writers born in Norway, Knut Hamsun ranks 2. Before him are Henrik Ibsen (1828). After him are Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832), Jon Fosse (1959), Jo Nesbø (1960), Ivar Aasen (1813), Ludvig Holberg (1684), Jostein Gaarder (1952), Camilla Collett (1813), Arne Garborg (1851), Alexander Kielland (1849), and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812).

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