"Northern Europe". The Encyclopedia of the Novel, A–Li. (2011). Blackwell Publishing. 583. பன்னாட்டுத் தரப்புத்தக எண்978-1-4051-6184-8. அணுகப்பட்டது 6 February 2012. “The most significant novelist of the Scandinavian countries is Knut Hamsun, who almost singlehandedly created the modern psychological novel through the publication of four works that probe the human subconscious, Sult (1890, Hunger), Mysterier (1892, Mysteries), Pan (1894), and Victoria (1898).”