Knut Hamsun is a legendary Norwegian writer and Nobel Prize laureate in literature. Hamsun was one of the world's most popular modernist playwrights, translated many times, and was well known in Russia.

'Hunger' is a largely autobiographical novel that brought its author worldwide fame. A terrifying story in its simplicity about a young, unrecognized writer, balancing day after day on the brink of starvation. Reality and bizarre, painful fantasies are intertwined in his mind, painfully experiencing the discrepancy between the ideal and material worlds...

'Victoria' is a novel about the struggle of human emotions, its capacious and dramatic plot telling the story of the deep, painful, and impossible love of two people from different classes—the miller's son, Johannes, and the daughter of a rural landowner, Victoria.