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In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author? In this volume the once forgotten literary backwaters of Scandinavia, and its hinterland, reveal the storied works of their own literature. Some names are familiar, some decidedly not. But each has literary talents and compelling narratives.

Die Compilation Knut Hamsun – Gedichte und Kurzgeschichten enthalt die folgenden drei Erzählungen "was wissen wir..." gelesen von Heiner Schmidt (ES: 04.07.1982), "Eine ganz gewöhnliche Fliege" gelesen von Wolfgang Reinsch (ES: 25.09.1981) und "Neue Erde" gelesen von Dieter Eppler (ES: 02.04.1988), Übersetzer: Julius Sandmeier, Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) ist ein norwegischer Schriftsteller. Seine bekanntesten Werke sind "Hunger", "Mysterien" und "Pan".

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents whose time has now come again.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In this volume we come up against the definition of Northern Europe. There are many, each with plausibility and each so obvious. So, here’s ours.