Gamsun biography

Born: August 4, G. was born on August 4 in the parish of Vega in the Gudbrandsdalen Valley. He was the fourth child in the family of the village tailor of Pedersen.

He lived in poverty, from the age of nine he worked in the office of his uncle, then the years of wanderings began, during which he changed many classes. He began to write from the age of 17. The first book appeared in his youth traveled a lot, having visited, in particular, to the USA. After settled in Copenhagen. In Hamsun, the innovative psychological novel “Hunger”, which brought him glory, comes out.

In E, and especially in Gamsun, he was one of the most popular writers and playwrights of modernism in the world, has been translated repeatedly ... and was very famous in Russia. Gamsun marries Beh - this marriage lasted eight years. He marries for the second time at actress Marie Andersen. Son - Ture Gamsun. Marie after the wedding left her career and stayed with Hamsun until the end of his life.

The spouses buy the Nerholm estate, in which Hamsun will spend the rest of his life. The Nobel Prize in Literature for the Monumental Labor “Fruits of the Earth” is awarded to Gamsun. To Gamsun handed his medal to the Nobel laureate to the Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich Joseph Goebbels. After Hitler came to power in Germany and during the Second World War, Gamsun, who previously systematically preached German culture and opposed the Anglo -Saxon, sided with the Nazis and supported Vidkun Quisling.

Seeing all the cruelty and crimes of the regime under the leadership of the Reich Commissioner Terboven, Hamsun, meeting Hitler in EM, demanded that he save Norway from Terboven and real political independence, which brought the Fuhrer as a rage. After the war ended, Hamsun was put on trial. He avoided imprisonment thanks to an advanced age, but was fined a civilian lawsuit.

He later described the trial in the book "On Outdated Paths." The son of the writer Arild served as a military correspondent in a special propaganda platoon, which entered the special propaganda regiment SS Kurt Eggers. Immediately after the death of Hitler, Gamsun wrote an obituary in which he called the Nazi leader a “fighter for the rights of the peoples”, despite the fact that relatives discouraged him from this step.

After the war, he lived in a nursing home for some time, and returned to Nerholm. He died on February 19