Knut Hamsun, a Norwegian treat at the University in Cluj

The Royal Norwegian Embassy in Bucharest
and
Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca
Faculty of Letters, Department of Scandinavian Languages and Literature

have the pleasure to invite you to the event:

HAMSUN 2009, 27-28 October in Cluj-Napoca

In the „Aula” of the Faculty of European Studies (1, Em. de Martonne St.)

which marks the 150 year-anniversary of Knut Hamsun’s (1859-1952) birth.
Aiming at preserving the literary legacy of the Norwegian author, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1920, the anniversary year - Hamsun 2009 - is celebrated both in Norway and internationally.
In Romania, the commemorative project “Hamsun 2009” consists of a cycle of conferences, with interventions from Norwegian and Romanian
Hamsun- specialists, as well as a poster and a book exhibition. Old and new films inspired by Hamsun’s life and work will also be screened.