Editing Knut Hamsun (section)

===Early literary career===
[[File:After Edvard Munch, Knut Hamsun, 1896, NGA 40158.jpg|alt=Photogravure made after the portrait of Hamsun by Edvard Munch in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC..|thumb|upright|After Edvard Munch, ''Knut Hamsun'', 1896, photogravure, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection, 1951.10.360]]
Working all those odd jobs paid off,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Knut Hamsun {{!}} Biography, Books and Facts |url=https://www.famousauthors.org/knut-hamsun |access-date=8 April 2018 |website=www.famousauthors.org}}</ref> and he published his first book: ''Den Gaadefulde: En Kjærlighedshistorie fra Nordland'' (''The Enigmatic Man: A Love Story from Northern Norway'', 1877). It was inspired from the experiences and struggles he endured from his jobs.

In his second novel ''Bjørger'' (1878), he attempted to imitate [[Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson]]'s writing style of the Icelandic saga narrative. The melodramatic story follows a poet, Bjørger, and his love for Laura. This book was published under the pseudonym Knud Pedersen Hamsund. This book later served as the basis for ''Victoria: En Kærligheds Historie'' (1898; translated as ''Victoria: A Love Story'', 1923).<ref name="Næss 2007 loc=1-608">{{Harvnb|Næss|2007|loc=1-608}}.</ref>

As of 1898 Hamsun was among the contributors of ''[[Ringeren]]'', a political and cultural magazine established by [[Sigurd Ibsen]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Terje I. Leiren |date=Fall 1999 |title=Catalysts to Disunion: Sigurd Ibsen and "Ringeren", 1898-1899 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40920149 |journal=Scandinavian Studies |volume=71 |issue=3 |pages=297–299 |jstor=40920149}}</ref>