![]() In 1918, the couple bought Nørholm, an old and somewhat dilapidated manor house between Lillesand and Grimstad. They bought a farm "to earn their living as farmers, with his writing providing some additional income." However, after a few years, they decided to move south, to Larvik. Marie was a young and promising actress when she met Hamsun, but she ended her career and travelled with him to Hamarøy. She wrote about their life together in her two memoirs. Hamsun then married Marie Andersen (born in 1881) in 1909 and she would be his companion until the end of his life. In 1898, Hamsun married Bergljot Goepfert (née Bech), but the marriage ended in 1906. He spent several years in America, travelling and working at various jobs, publishing his impressions under the title Fra det moderne Amerikas Aandsliv (1889). At seventeen, he became an apprentice to a ropemaker, and at about the same time he started to write. ![]() He grew up in poverty in Hamarøy in Nordland. He was the fourth son of Peder Pedersen and Tora Olsdatter (Garmostrædet). Knut Hamsun was born as Knud Pedersen in Lom, Norway in Gudbrandsdal. ![]()
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