The following book is a biography of Knut Hamsun, written by Hanna Astrup Larsen. Hamsun was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. He pioneered psychological literature with techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue, and influenced authors such as Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Maxim Gorky, Stefan Zweig, Henry Miller, Hermann Hesse, John Fante, and Ernest Hemingway.