![]() ![]() Olav Medal and with the Knight's Cross, First Class, of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit. He translated five of Knut Hamsun's works for Penguin Classics- Hunger (1890), Mysteries (1892), Pan (1894), Victoria (1898), and The Growth of the Soil (1917) -and was honored by the King of Norway with the St. She, however, is not entirely faithful to him, which affects him. Glahns life changes when he meets Edvarda, a merchants daughter, whom he quickly falls in love with. ![]() Sverre Lyngstad (1922-2011 translator, introducer, notes) was a scholar and translator of Norwegian literature and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. One of Knut Hamsuns most famous works, 'Pan' is the story of Lieutenant Thomas Glahn, an ex-military man who lives alone in the woods with his faithful dog Aesop. His first novel, Hunger (1890), was an immediate critical success he went on to write the novels Mysteries (1892), Pan (1894), Victoria (1898), and The Growth of the Soil (1917), the last of which earned him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Born to a poor peasant family in central Norway, he worked as a schoolmaster, sheriff's assistant, laborer, store clerk, farmhand, and streetcar conductor in both Scandinavia and America before establishing himself as a successful playwright and novelist. Knut Hamsun (1858-1952) was a Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright hailed by many as one of the founders of modern literature. ![]()
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