1909

    Selma Lagerlöfová (1858 – 1940)

1916

    C.G. Verner von Heidenstam (1859 – 1940)

1931

    Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864 – 1931)

1951

    Pär Lagerkvist (1891 – 1974)

1966

    Nelly Sachs (1891 – 1970)

1974

    Eyivind Johnson (1900 – 1976)

1974

    Harry Martinson (1904 – 1978)

2011

    Tomas Tranströmer (1931 – 2015)

SWEDEN



NORWAY

1903

    Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1830 – 1910)

1920

    Knut Hamsun (1859 – 1952)

1928

    Sigrid Undset (1882 – 1949)

2023

    Jon Fosse (1959)


DENMARK

1917

    Henrik Pontopidan (1857 – 1943) (+ Karl Gjellerup)

1944

    Johannes V. Jensen (1873 – 1950)


ICELAND

1955

    Halldór Laxness (1902 – 1998)


FINLAND

1939

    Frans Emil Sillanpää (1887 – 1964)





Knut Hamsun


Sigrid Undset

social background

Family lived in poverty


Intellectual family

education

Autodidact, work in the USA

Self-learner, study stays in Roma and London

debut

1890 Hunger


1911 Jenny

topics

Rural topics, archetype wanderer, sensitive individualists


History, legends, woman´life

genres

Novels and short stories

Travelogues, essays, poetry

Contemporary novels,

Novels from the Middel Ages

method

Modernism


Traditional, realistic

Nobel Prize

1920 for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil

1928 principally for her powerful descriptions of Northern life during the Middle Ages

Nobel medal

Devoted the medal to Goebbels

Gave the finances from the medal to Finnish people defending their country after the attack by
Sovet Union

The thirties

Supported the Nazi in Norway


Essays against fascism

During WWII

Supporter of Nazi ideology, visited Hitler


Resistence, Emigration in USA,

Information soldier

family

Son Arild entered Waffe SS

(war correspondent)

The oldest son felt, died as voluteer defending Norway

After 1945 – personal life

Hospital, institution, trial, penalty


illness

summary

Norwegians have tried to separate their world-famous writer work from his Nazi beliefs. Deeper
explanations involve his contradictory personality, antipathy toward the interwar democracy, and
especially his Anglophobia.^[29]


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