1920 Nobel Prize in Literature

1920 Nobel Prize in Literature
Knut Hamsun
"for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil."
Date
  • 13 November 1920 (announcement)
  • 10 December 1920
    (ceremony)
LocationStockholm, Sweden
Presented bySwedish Academy
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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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.

  1. ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 nobelprize.org