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In 1949 — on the very day he received the verdict from the Norwegian court trying him for alleged treason — Hamsun, an eighty-nine-year-old man who had gone from being his country’s most beloved writer to its most hated, penned the final sentence of...

Written by Norwegian Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun in 1890, Hunger has been acclaimed and is considered the first modern Scandinavian novel and an outstanding example of the psychological novel. The story is told in the first person, in which the unnamed fictional character narrates...

Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" (1890) is possibly the most influential Norwegian novel in history. A true classic of modern literature and a precursor to the psychologically focused fiction of Franz Kafka, Albert Camus and José Saramago. Now comic book artist Martin Ernstsen has turned it...