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July 28th. to August 5th. 2012:
15. Hamsun-days in Hamarøy. The Hamsun-days
started in 1982, and since then the festival has grown
steadily and is now a cornucopia of literature, theatre,
concerts, exhibitions and off-course social gathering. 30
years, a small jubilee, so surely the Organizing
Committee will do it's best to put up an exiting
programme and we'll all have terrific days! Please find
here the official website of the festival: www.knuthamsun.no
August 9. to 11. 2012:
The Hamsun-Society literary seminar. The
well-known literary seminar organized by the
Hamsun-Society takes place this year in Sortland on
Vesterålen. In addition to the exiting lectures, this
opens the possibility of visiting Hamsun-related places
like Sortland hotell, Jennestad Handelssted, Lihallen
kulturgård and not least Bø i Vesterålen, where Knut
Hamsun was a policeman. Read more in the Hamsun-Society
member's magazine: Hamsun-nytt 1/2012. There you will
also find the registration form.
August 15. to 19. 2012:
Ibsen Hamsun days in Grimstad. This exiting
festival takes place every year in August and focusses on
both of town's famous sons. Surely we can expect an
interesting programme of high quality this year like in
every year. The programme will follow.
Poems and music in the easter
week.
A broad cultural programme is offered Tuesday, April 3.
2012 at 7.30pm at Fossheim, Lom. See
the programme here: Indbydelse.
Source: Torunn Kjøk 30.03.2012
What is Ljodahått?
Apart from being a metre in old norse poetry, it
is also an exiting project, where skilled musicians from
several European contries fronted by Norwegian Magne
Håvard Brekke have gathered to perform the best of
Norwegian poetry - in norwegian! Including off-course
Knut Hamsun and all the way from Hans Børli over Olav
H.Hauge to Tarjei Vesaas. Their new CD album "Eg
stend eg, seddu" was released at a concert in the
famous Volksbühne in Berlin and the German newspaper TAZ
wrote: "..Man hätte ihnen tausende
[Zuhörer]gewünscht, denn sie geben ein erstklassiges
Konzert" og "das Bandprojekt Ljodahått ein
herrliches Himmelfahrtskommando.." (one wish
them thousends of fans, as they offer a first-class
concert) and (the project Ljodahått is a terrific
suicidal attac). Oslo has succeded in getting the
group to Norway to give concerts at the Litteraturhuset
in Oslo on April 13. and 14. Do visit www.litteraturhuset.no
to order tickets. Visit also ljodahatt.com
to get a sample of their programme or visit them at
Facebook  . Please enjoy this
unique and exiting project!
March 10th. 2012: Hamsun-seminar
in Oslo. New update on programme, registration
etc here: Invitation.
Source: Bjørn Rudborg 26.02.2012
The making of... Hamsunsenteret
For all of us, who didn't live in northern
Norway, it was difficult to follow the construction of
the Hamsun centre in Hamarøy. Here is a small video to
make up for it. We have put up the speed at little, so it
doesn't take so long and we have added a litttle music
too. Enjoy the construction: Hamsunsenteret
March 10th. 2012: Hamsun-seminar
in Oslo. The Hamsun-Society, section Oslo,
invites you to a seminar on "Hamsun and the
capital". The seminar will take place in the
Hamsun-hall in the publishing house Gyldendal on March
10th from 10am to 2pm. The programme:
- Lars Frode Larsen: Litterær vandring i sporene
etter Hamsun i Oslo. Kåseri rundt en serie av
bilder på storskjerm - bilder fra steder i dagens Oslo
som på ulike måter kan knyttes til Hamsuns liv og
diktning.
- Tove Nilsen: Om å være hovedstadsforfatter og
Hamsun-leser.
- Hege Faust: Hamsuns Kristiania i liv og
litteratur ca 1885-1905.
- fourth lecture to come
Fee: NOK 100 for members of the Hamsun-Society, NOK 150
for others. A lunch and a t-shirt with a motive of the
day is included in the fee. Read more about registration:
Programme.
Source: Hege Faust, Hamsun-Selskapet,
Oslo 03.02.2012
A virtuel visit to the Hamsuncentre:
Do you feel like visiting the Hamsun-centre in
Hamarøy and it's amazing architecture and it's exiting
exhibition right now, but you live just a bit too far
away for a week-end trip? Why not try the beautiful
virtual tour with 360° panoramic-view here: Arctic360.no . It is not QUITE the
same thing as being there, but...
02.12.2011
New venue for the Hamsun-Society literary
seminar 2012:
The board of the Hamsun-Society has decided that
the society will place it's literary seminar in
Sortland/Vesterålen, most likely starting Thursday
August 9th and ending Saturday 11th, the chairman of the
Hamsun-Society Even Arntzen writes on Facebook. In
addition to the exiting lectures, this opens the
possibility of visiting Hamsun-related places like
Sortland hotell, Jennestad Handelssted, Lihallen
kulturgård and not least Bø i Vesterålen, where Knut
Hamsun was a policeman. A detailed programme will follow
in the next issue of the magazine Hamsun-nytt.
Source: Hamsun-selskapet on
Facebook
New chairman of the Ibsen-Hamsun festival in
Grimstad:
Torolf Kroglund is new chairman of the
Foundation Ibsen Hamsun in Grimstad and also organizer of
the Ibsen-Hamsun days in Grimstad. This exiting festival
is organized every year in August and Kroglund wants to
present a wide festival with a high artistic level and
also maintain the broad popular participation. Neither
will unpleasant questions around the two controversial
poets be omitted, Torolf says. We are looking very much
forward to the next festival 2012 and wish Torolf good
luck in his new capacity!
Source: Lillesands-posten 24.11.2011
New date for the seminar in Oslo:
As the previously proposed date for the seminar
is in the middle of the winter holidays, a new date will
be fixed soon.
Source: Hege Faust, Hamsun-Selskapet i
Oslo
Hamsun-seminar in Oslo, February 18th. 2012:
The Hamsun-Society, section Oslo, invites to a seminar
Saturday, February 18th. 2012, "Hamsun-nytt"
writes in it's latest issue 2/2011. The seminar will take
place in the Hamsun-hall in the publishing house
Gyldendal. The title of the seminar is: Hamsun and the
capital. More information on the programme and enrolment
will be available in December and published in e-mails to
the members of the Hamsun-Society, in Hamsun-nytt, on the
Hamsun-Society page on facebook and on www.hamsun-selskapet.no.
Source: www.hamsun-selskapet.no 11.10.2011
Knut Hamsun's day in Bodø, September 29th.:
The Hamsun-centre and the
University of Nordland invite to the inauguration of the
Knut Hamsun lecture hall and the start-up of
collaboration between the two institutions with film,
lectures, food and mingling. The day is open to all, but
with notification of intent for the
evening session. Please find the invitation here: indbydelse (in
Norwegian only). Leif Hamsun will be present during the
event.
Source: Bodil Børset
15.09.2011
 
Hamsun-festival in Hamarøy 2012:
The planning af the Hamsun-festival 2012 in
Hamarøy has started. Apart from special celebrations
like in 1959 and 1961, the Hamsun-festival as we know it
was started in 1982 by a group of committed enthusiasts.
That is 30 years ago now, a small jubilee, so I think the
organizing committee will plan something special, and
that we will have some exiting days! The festival will
take place from July 28th to August 5th in beautiful
Hamarøy!
Source: Marianne Apold 11.09.2011
Festive celebration in the spirit of
reconciliation.
Knut Hamsun's birthday on August 4th. was
celebrated in festive manner in Hamarøy, with laying of
the wrath, photo exhibition, birthday cakes and unveiling
of a new Hamsun bust by Nico Widerberg. This year it is
exactly 50 years since the first Hamsun bust was unveiled
in Hamarøy and thus it was a scoop to be able to unveil
the new bust, given as a present to the Hamsun centre. Read more and see the photos...
12.08.2011
Knut Hamsun's birthday:
Knut Hamsun's birthday on August 4th will
off-course also be celebrated in Hamarøy. This year it
is exactly 50 years since the first bust in Hamsun's
honour was unveiled in - off-course - Hamarøy. The bust,
which was a present from the Greek artist Georg
Themistokles Malteso, was in 1961 unveiled by the author
Lars Berg. This year Lars Berg's son, Einride Berg, will
hold the birthday address at the bust in Hamsund.
Afterwards an exhibition with photos from the 1961 event
will be opened in Knut Hamsun's childhood home.
Later in the day at the Hamsun centre Nico Widerberg's
bust of Knut Hamsun will be unveiled. The bust is a
donation to the Hamsun centre. Lars Berg will tell about
the relationship between his father and Knut Hamsun,
there will be a cake buffet and there will be a guided
tour to Hamsun places along the Glimma.
Source: www.Hamsunsenteret.no 29.07.2011
Festive opening of the season at Hamsun's
childhood home:
Knut Hamsun's childhood home in Hamsund,
Hamarøy opened it's doors to the public with a small
party and the disclosure of a memorial plaque on June
18th. After the official speeches we all enjoyed waffles
baked on the spot and coffee cooked over the open fire
and there was the possibility of a dance to the music
from a barrel organ. And as always the sun was shining
over beautiful. Read more
and see the photos...
02.08.2011
The Hamsun-Society on Facebook:
The Hamsun-Society is now also on Facebook. If
you know about Hamsun-events, if you want to share info
on Hamsun or if you just would like to get in contact
with other Hamsun-enthusiasts, then this group is just
for you. The administrator of the group is Hege Faust,
president of the Oslo-section of the Hamsun-Society. You
can find the group here: Facebook 
26.02.2011
Vreid:
The Norwegian heavy metal band Vreid has just
released it's newest, blackest most complex and most
heavy album so far: "V". The theme in their
productions were always history, this time the lyrics are
inspired by Knut Hamsun, Munch and Sartre. As a follow-up
on the release Vreid gives concerts in Haugesund, Bergen,
Sogndal and Oslo. The band has also been invited to play
at the prestigious Øya festival 9.-13. August 2011.
Click here to read more and to see trailer: http://www.myspace.com/thepitchblackbrigade.
Here you will also find links to the Øya-festival. Yes,
Knut Hamsun is young, alive and progressive!
19.02.2011
2011 starts with an exiting book release:
Britt Andersen is not "just"
professor of literary sciences at Norges
teknisknaturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU) in
Trondheim, she is also well known as a thorough
Hamsun-researcher and she gives exiting lecturer a.o. at
the Hamsun festivals. Now she has written a book on the
lesser known sides of Hamsun. The book is on the part of
Hamsun's works, that were less investigated like Hamsun's
wild radical satires and it addresses issues, that were
so far not much investigated, like the feminized man, the
new woman and population policy. Here Knut Hamsun was in
dialogue with the political debates of his time on sex
and modernism, reproduction and building of the nation.
Britt Andersen: Ubehaget ved det moderne.
Kjønn og biopolitikk i Hamsuns kulturkritiske romaner. Tapir
Akademisk Forlag. 2011. 252 pages. Price: 280,-
NOK.
Many book releases in 2010:
In the course of the year several interesting
books on Hamsun have been published, sometimes with quite
new approaches:
Bjørn Rudborg is well known for his
travels in Knut Hamsun's footsteps to the Caucasia
together with Ole Petter Førland. An outcome of that
travel led to the beautiful book "Knut Hamsun I
Æventyrland" in 2000. Now Bjørn Rudborg digs into
Knut Hamsun's stay in Finland and he brings many totally
new facts to the surface. Despite of the short stay of
only 10 months in Finland, the relationship between
Hamsun and his first wife Bergljot is put in a new
perspective. Also the relation between the many
Scandinavian artists and the young Finland is
highlighted. The book is very well illustrated with
beautiful and unusual photos.
Bjørn Rudborg: Knut Hamsun og Finland.
Norgesforlaget 2010. 141 pages. Bound.
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In this amazing and beautiful small book
you will find poems from Knut Hamsun's collections Det
vilde kor and En fløjte lød i mit blod,
in dialogue with the paintings of Peder Balke. It just
works so well! Nobody could as Knut Hamsun describe in
words the grandiose and mystic North-Norwegian nature and
nobody could like Peder Balke express the same in
painting. Both touch a note within the reader/seer.
Helle Sommerfelt (red.): Knut Hamsun,
PederBalke. Fra serien Kunstgleder. Dreyers forlag. 2010.
65 pages. Bound.
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Every year the Hamsun-Society publishes a
book in it's series of monographs, which is sent free of
charge to all members. Non-members may buy the books by
contacting the Hamsun-Society. This year the
book contained the lectures given at the literary seminar
during the Hamsun-festival in Hamarøy.
Even Arntzen og Nils M. Knutsen (red.):
Hamsun, kjønn og media. 13 foredrag fra Hamsun-dagene
på Hamarøy 2010. Hamsun-Selskapet 2010. 197 pages.
Bound.
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Ivar Roger Hansen is curator of the
Petter Dass museum at Alstadhaug, but he also has a
thorough knowledge of Knut Hamsun and in particularly he
is an expert on the theme of Hamsun and music, where he
has a.o. published the music-bibliography: "Der
synger i mig en tone". Ivar Roger has now traced a
long-lasting correspondence between Knut Hamsun and the
Danish author Hulda Lütken, a correspondence which has
not been known so far. The book "Rolig
vildskap" gives an exiting introduction to Hulda
Lütken's life and works and to Knut Hamsun's interest in
her.
Ivar Roger Hansen: Rolig vildskap. Om den
danske forfatteren Hulda Lütken og Knut Hamsun.
Helgeland museum 2010. 115 pages.
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Aaslaug Vaa, Nina Frang Høyum, Erik
Fenstad Langdalen and Lars Müller have edited this
homage to Knut Hamsun, to the architect Steven Holl and
his Hamsun-centre and to this Hamarøy, which is the
centre of it all. The book contains a series of essays
from Norwegian and foreign personalities, who all are
dedicated to Hamsun, from the US-American writer Paul
Auster over the Danish film director Henning Carlsen to
Norwegian Catherine Krøger. Though -off course - the
content is the most important, the book is also a
bibliophilic pleasure beautifully printed on quality
paper. And without the enormous work done by the editors
for the creation of the centre, we would not have had the
centre at all. This book is the last full stop in the
happy end of establishing the Hamsun centre.
Aaslaug Vaa et al (red.): Hamsun Holl
Hamarøy. Lars Müller publishers 2010. 252 pages. Bound.
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I think, it is the first time somebody
has occupied himself with the theme of food and meals in
the works of Knut Hamsun. When one considers, what an
important role food plays - not just as a mean to survive
- but also as a prologue to action or to changes in
relations between people, then it is commendable that
Inge Fagerbakk has published a "Hamsun cook
book". As a bonus on top of very fine philosophy on
Hamsun's texts, you will find 150 exiting recipes, often
old traditional food, but so delicate, that water runs in
your mouth whilst reading: Do take care to have a filled
refrigerator before starting reading.
Inge Fagerbakk: Hamsunkokeboka. Orkana
forlag 2010. 268 pages. Bound.
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Marianne Hamsun is a well known painter,
both under her Hamsun name and under her maiden name
Marianne Feiring. Now Marianne has written the memoirs on
her life in the Hamsun family and on the people, who
influenced her life. Especially fine are the memories of
her married life with Knut Hamsun's son Tore.
Marianne Hamsun: Den fraværendes
nærhet. Licentia forlag 2010. 168 pages. Bound.
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At the opening of the exhibition in the Hamsun-centre
on 13.06.2010, Per Kristian Olsen, journalist at the
Norwegian Television NRK, presented his new Hamsun book:
"I Hamsuns fotspor. Mellom øst og vest - reiser som
formet forfatteren og personen." In Hamsun's
footsteps between East and West is a beautifully
illustrated book with many photos shot during the
research and the taking of the television documentary
"Devine Madness". Focus in the book are
Hamsun's travels in USA and the Orient, which Per
Kristian Olsen argues has had a far larger impact on
Hamsun's formation than previously assumed. The book may
be bought in the book shop or directly at Norwegian
Television: http://nrkbutikken.no/bok/i-hamsuns-fotspor
.
Per Kristian Olsen: I Hamsuns fotspor. NRK Aktivium
2010. 160 pages. Bound. Price: 349,- NOK.
Hamsun wine:
Do you need a souvenir from Knut Hamsun's 150
years jubilee? What about a bottle of Hamsun-wine? Read
more at the vinmonopolet: www.vinmonopolet.no
Source: Torunn Kjøk
Hamsun-days in Hamarøy. 31.July-08.August
2010:
Every other year this cornucopia of cultural
events around Knut Hamsun takes place, in the middle of
the most beautiful North-Norwegian landscape. The
programme is ready now: Read
more...
Source: www.knuthamsun.no 13.05.2010
The foundation
Ibsen and Hamsun, Grimstad. The foundation
Ibseniana and the Grimstad branch of the Hamsun-Society
have now merged into one new foundation. The reason
behind is, that the Ibseniana and the Hamsun-Society in
Grimstad for several years have co-operated so closely as
to have joint steering committee meetings and working
together on all events, especially the yearly Ibsen- and
Hamsun-days. The last years they have de facto acted as
one society.
Source: Ola
Veigaard 29.04.2010
The Hamsun-Society literary seminar 2010:
One of the main activities of the Hamsun-Society is the
popular literary seminar during the Hamsun-festival
in Hamarøy, which this year takes place from
31. July to 8. August. The literary seminar itself takes
place from 4. to 6. August and the preliminary programme
is now ready with many exiting items. See the preliminary
programme here...
Source: Even Arntzen
27.04.2010
The Petter Dass-medal 2010 goes to director
Bodil Børset and the Hamsuncentre:
This year's Petter Dass-medal is awarded to the
Hamsuncentre and it's managing director Bodil Børset as
"... an encouragement and support for the
important work Bodil Børset has in front of her: to give
the Hamsuncentre the significance, which the awarding
committee mean Knut Hamsun and the Centre deserve –
not just to the county of Nordland and to Norway –
but to the world". The medal is awarded by the
Nordlændingernes Forening, an honourable society founded
1862, and the medal has since 1912 been given to
individuals, merited by Northern Norway. Among former
prize-winners are H.M. Queen Sonja, Richard With (the
coastal steamer Hurtigruten), the Sami singer Mari Boine
and the artist Kaare Espolin Johnson. Heartfelt
congratulations Bodil!
Source: Nordlændingernes
Forening 15.02.2010
Hamsun evening in Kolding
Thursday 25. February 2010 at 6.30pm in Nikolai biograf
og Cafe:
The evening is a collaboration between the
Folkeuniversitetet, Fritze Lundstrøm from Nikolaj
biograf and Foreningen NORDEN. The theme: "A
controversial Norwegian and a literary giant." will
be addressed by the literary scientist Jonas Kjærgaard
Laursen. The theme will distinguish between an author's
literary work and political preferences. With the novel
"Hunger" (1890) Knut Hamsun entered the
European literary premier league and he received the
Nobel Prize in 1920 for the novel "Growth of the
Soil" (1917). Is it possible to praise literary
works by an author, who supported Germany during the war?
Can the political errors of the author be found in his
books? Do we have to abandon the idea of art as educative
and source of good manners? Based on such questions
Hamsun's works will be discussed. Afterwards Henning
Carlsen's film "Hunger" (1966) will be shown.
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