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The Growth of the Soil is the novel by Norwegian writer
Knut HamsunKnut Hamsun was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. He was praised by King Haakon VII of Norway as Norway's soul....
which won him the
Nobel Prize in LiteratureSince 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
in 1920.
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W.W. Worster, in an afterword to his 1920 translation of
Growth of the Soil, describes the novel as follows: