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- ↑ Donald Dewey, "Edging Out of Darkness" Norway’s Long Struggle to Establish a Thriving Film Industry" Archived 7 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine , Scandinavian Review (The American-Scandinavian Foundation), Autumn 2010, pp. 18, 30.
- ↑ Wilmington, Michael (21 February 1997). "Knut Who? Hamsun Retrospective Shows Talents Of Norwegian Novelist". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
