New York architect Steven Holl has been given the go-ahead to build a controversial study centre dedicated to Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, thirteen years after he was commissioned to design the ...

In the spring of 1891, 31-year-old Knut Hamsun, penniless and hounded by debtors, embarked on a lecture tour of his native Norway. He had recently published his first successful novel, “Hunger”; now, ...

OSLO makes a lot of Norway's cultural heroes. In its snowy parks, not only Grieg and Ibsen, but every local worthy has, it seems, a public memorial. Everybody, that is, except Knut Hamsun, Norway's ...

There has been a recent revival of interest in the works of Knut Hamsun, the Norwegian Nobel laureate. Roshen Dalal explores the reasons for the revival. There has been a recent revival of interest in ...

Here are more images of Steven Holl Architects' Knut Hamsun Center at Hamarøy, Norway, which opened last week. The opening of the building coincides with the 150th anniversary of the Norwegian writer ...

American acting legend Al Pacino has pulled out of a stage adaptation of ’Hunger’, the dark psychological novel by Norway’s Knut Hamsun, because of the writer’s enthusiastic support for Adolf Hitler ...

Norway will put Nobel literature laureate Knut Hamsun, who became an outcast and was charged with treason after the Second World War for his Nazi sympathies, on a commemorative coin, the central bank ...

I have a rough list of favourite books, which changes all the time. The book which had the greatest effect when I first read it is probably Hunger by the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun. It was published ...