Marie Hamsun

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Marie Hamsun (born Marie Andersen) (1881-1969) was a Norwegian actor and writer. She was the second wife of the writer Knut Hamsun, with whom she had 3 children.

She wrote 2 collections of poems and several children's books. Hamsun's work has been translated to several other languages, including Swedish, German, English, Latvian and Finnish. She also published 2 biographies about her life with Knut Hamsun: Regnbuen (The Rainbow) (1953) and Under gullregnen (1959).

Marie Hamsun shared her husband's political views and his support for the German occupation forces during World War II. She was a member of Vidkun Quisling's facist party Nasjonal Samling, and toured frequently German cities reciting the works of Knut Hamsun during the early years of the war.