In 2009, this man's biographer observed "we can't help loving him, though we have hated him al these years."
In 2009, this man's biographer observed "we can't help loving him, though we have hated him al these years." He wrote of the wandering hero in such works as Wayfarers and Pan, while in his first novel, Hunger, he chronicled the descent into madness of a young writer in then­Kristiania.  In his most famous work, he detailed the primal existence of two individuals, Inger and Isak.  However, that epic, The Growth of the Soil, may be overshadowed by his political statements in later life, including describing Hitler as "a prophet for the gospel of justice of al nations." Though he gifted it to Joseph Goebbels in 1943, for ten points, name this Norwegian writer who was awarded the 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature.
In 2009, this man's biographer observed "we can't help loving him, though we have hated him al these years."
Knut Hamsun