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Henrik Pontoppidan

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Henrik Pontoppidan

Writing · 1857–1943 · Fredericia, Danmark

Biography

Henrik Pontoppidan was a Danish realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." He was the youngest and in many ways the most original and influential member of the Modern Break-Through.

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