Birgitte Furberg Moe

Lecture in the Adventure Hall at The Hamsun Centre , Tuesday, August 4.

Researcher and literature reviewer

Birgitte Furberg Moe (b. 1982) is a literary researcher and associate professor. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Oslo in 2023 with the thesis “On the genesis of the text and on the guilt in Knut Hamsun’s Paa gjengrodde Stier (1949).” The thesis is based, among other things, on systematic work with letters, fragments from, drafts of, and revisions of the book’s various parts from 1945 until publication, texts that shed light on genesis, allegorical elements, and questions about personal beliefs and authorial intention.

Furberg Moe came across unknown letters that show the Hamsun family's close connection with the German press attaché in Stockholm during the war: Paul Grassman. 

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