Processen mod Hamsun

by Thorkild Hansen

Danish

Genres: Nonfiction, Biography, Literature

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Thorkild Hansen (9 January 1927 – 4 February 1989) was a Danish novelist most noted for his historical fiction. He is commonly associated with his trilogy about the Danish slave trade including Slavernes øer (1970) for which he received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1971.

Hansen was born at Ordrup in Gentofte Municipality, Denmark. He attended Holte Gymnasium and from 1945-47 studied literature at the University of Copenhagen. In 1947, he moved to Paris where he wrote dispatches for the Copenhagen-based Ekstra Bladet. After returning to Denmark in 1952, he devoted his efforts to a series of novels. Several featured aspects of the Danish era of imperialism. Det Lykkelige Arabien: En Dansk Ekspedition (1962) covered the Danish Arabia expedition (1761–67) led by Carsten Niebuhr. His book Jens Munk (1965) was about Danish-Norwegian sea captain Jens Munk and his attempt to locate the Northwest Passage.

He died prematurely during a voyage in the Caribbean

Reviews

[René Johnsen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Grundig, indsigtsfuld og medlevende beskrivelse af det komplekse geni Knut Hamsun, om efterkrigstidens behov for at finde en syndebuk i den gamle, senile Hamsun, som uden tvivl traf nogle utilgivelige beslutninger under krigen, og som alt for sent fik øjnene op for Hitlers vanvid.