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Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading growth of. Growth of the soil is the novel by norwegian writer knut hamsun which won him the nobel prize in literature. It follows the story of a man who settles and lives in rural norway. In 1920, hamsun s novel growth of the soil, a book describing the attraction and honesty of working with the land, won the nobel prize in literature. Stylistically it has a simplicity which reflects its subject matter and there prevails what worster calls a miltonic monumental calm. Growth of the soil knut hamsun growth of the soil is a classic of european literature, one of the seminal novels of the twentieth century. Growth of the soil by knut hamsun download pdf here.