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Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1943)
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Henrik Pontoppidan
Danish writer, Nobel Laureate
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." Pontoppidan's novels and short stories — informed with a desire for social progress but…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nobel Prize in Literature
Prize established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel
The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning for Literature, is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)