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As part of my blog series about people who built connections between Georgia and their home countries, today I want to talk about the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun (born 1859 in Lom, Norway), a Nobel Prize laureate, who traveled to Georgia in 1899 with his wife. Hamsun traveled under various names to avoid attention. Rather than spending time with the elite, he wanted to experience ordinary Georgian life, meet local people, and immerse himself in the country. He fell in love w