The Master of the Castle sets his home on fire to 
The Master of the Castle sets his home on fire to mourn the death of Otto in a novel by this man, which describes the poetic miller's son Johannes attempting to woo the title character, Victoria. The strained friendship of Grindhausen and Falkenberg is described in his two-book cycle Under the Autumn Stars and A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings, and he described his imprisonment for sympathizing with the Nazis during World War II in On Overgrown Paths. A mission to buy a candle with a florin and the mistaken dispensing of change for a crown leads another of this author's protagonists to meet the Lady in Black after suffering the title condition due to a poor market for his plays. For 10 points, name this Norwegian author of Hunger.
The Master of the Castle sets his home on fire to mourn the death of Otto in a novel by this man, which describes the poetic miller's son Johannes attempting to woo the title character, Victoria.
Knut {Hamsun}