Knut Hamsun (1859 - 1952), the great Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate, was and remains one of the most controversial figures in the literature of the 20th century. A singer of love and nature, human passions, who created “The Gospel of the Tiller”, “Fruits of the Earth” (1917), Hamsun sincerely shared Nazi views and admired Mussolini, Quisling and Hitler. Drawing on numerous sources, using unknown archival materials (including Joseph Goebbels), the author of this study, Ture Rem (b. 1967), a professor at the University of Oslo, literary critic and journalist, tries to answer the question of how creative genius can be combined with service misanthropic regime.

The culmination of the book is the story of the meeting of the great writer with the dictator at the Berghof residence on June 26, 1943.

In 2015, the book “Knut Hamsun. A Visit to Hitler" was awarded the annual award of the Norwegian Critics Association as the best documentary prose. The book has been translated into Danish, Swedish and German.