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Which famous author called Hamsun "the father of modern literature"?

  • Ernest Hemingway

  • Isaac Bashevis Singer

  • Thomas Mann

  • Henry Miller

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The famous author Isaac Bashevis Singer called Knut Hamsun "the father of modern literature." Singer was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish-American author who wrote in Yiddish. He is best known for his novels and short stories about Jewish life in Poland and America. Singer was also a critic of modern literature, and he believed that Hamsun was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
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