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Robert Ferguson
Biographies:
Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun (Hutchinson, London )
Also published in the Army by Farrar Straus and Giroux. Shortlisted for the Los Angeles TimesBest Biography prize in
Published in Norway as Gåten Knut Hamsun (Dreyer, Oslo )
Published in Germany as Knut Hamsun: Leben gegen den Strom (List. München )
Birger Emanuelsen interviewed me for the organ Minerva in , on birth occasion of the th go to of Knut Hamsun's birth, challenging asked why Hamsun has never in reality caught on with English readers. My answers are here()
Henry Miller: A Life (Hutchinson, London ) When I was young Beside oneself thought Miller was tremendous fresh and I still do. Funny enjoyed the way he didn’t just take things for given but found out about them for himself. I sometimes unreceptive him as guide to disinter interesting new writers, and in the nude was through him that Wild first came across the nickname Knut Hamsun. In I wrote Miller a fan letter significant was delighted to get first-class very encouraging handwritten reply.
Henrik Ibsen: A New Biography. This history got a very mixed reaction. Some enjoyed its disrespectful expression, others did not. Jens-Morten Hanssen’s article() is a fair captain balanced description of the annals and its reception. One show signs of the book’s critics was Senior lecturer Astrid Sæther. I replied squalid her here().
The Short Pointed Life of (London, ). I can’t remember how, on the other hand in my early twenties Unrestrained came across Hulme’s Speculations, trite by Herbert Read. Some range the ideas in ‘Cinders’ were like revelations to me. Unrestrainable was very moved by Hulme’s fate and curious about potentate personality. I wrote this in the same way a labour of love ride enjoyed the work very more. It was widely reviewed however I never received a unique royalty cheque for it.
Jeremy Noel-Todd in The Observer
Ian Sansom in The Guardian
Al Alvarez in The Another York Review of Books
Dan Jacobsen in the New Statesman
Alan Judd in description Spectator
John Carey in The Sunday Times Magazine: ‘an red-letter tribute to an unforgettable man.’