![]() ![]() His is one of the names that figure most prominently in the National Film Theatre's current celebration of Norwegian cinema. Even in the realm of film - a medium for which he cared little - his influence is pervasive: there have been more screen adaptations of his work than of any other Norwegian author barring Ibsen. ![]() Whether they like it or not, the Norwegians cannot escape Hamsun. Hamsun is still an object of hate in Norway." "There was quite a fight in the newspapers," says the film-maker, novelist and journalist Arne Skouen. ![]() I t is a measure of how ambivalent the Norwegians feel towards their Nobel prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) that the recent suggestion that a street in Oslo be named after him provoked a ferocious public debate. ![]()
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