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Show Former Carman Wins Nobel Prize. Chicago. Knut Hamsun, a former street car conductor in Chicago, has just been awarded the Nobel literature prize for 1920. Gathering fares and "shoving 'era up" on a swaying Hal-stead Hal-stead street horse car was not to Hamsun's Ham-sun's liking and he was not a glittering glitter-ing success in that role. Today he is the greatest living fiction writer of , Scandinavia. To date his works have been translated into twenty-three languages. His published volumes cover 6o,000,000 pages. |