Kalmar "Hamsun" yawanci tana nufin Knut Hamsun, marubuci dan kasar Norway wanda ake kallonsa a matsayin daya daga cikin manyan mawallafin adabi na karni na 20. An haife shi a ranar 4 ga Agusta, 1859, kuma ya rasu a ranar 19 ga Fabrairu, 1952. Shahararrun ayyukan Hamsun sun hada da "Yunwa," "Mysteries," da "Growth of the Soil," wanda ya ba shi kyautar Nobel a fannin adabi a 1920. Kamar yadda Marubuci, Hamsun ya shahara ne da fahimtar tunaninsa da kuma amfani da dabarun ba da labari mai ratsa jiki.