1920 Nobel Prize in Literature | |
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Knut Hamsun | |
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Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
Presented by | Swedish Academy |
First awarded | 1901 |
Website | Official website |
The 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) "for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil."[1] He was the second Norwegian Nobel laureate in literature after Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson won in 1903.