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Henrik Pontoppidan
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 despairing, later in his life, of its realization — present an unusually comprehensive picture of his country and his epoch. As a…
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culture · Danish writer, Nobel Laureate · writer · novelist · autobiographer · poet · prose writer · also Henrik Pontoppidan, Pontoppidan
Born 24 July 1857 · Died 21 August 1943 · Q225554
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2019· 2 entries
Information: Henrik Pontoppidan var ikke Lykke-Per, fremgår det af nyt gigantværk om nobelpristageren
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In the Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics series
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2010· 1 entry
DR DK: Henrik Pontoppidan (1857-1943)
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1943· 1 entry
Died 1943-08-21.
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1917· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1917).
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For "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark
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1901· 1 entry
A society in which political ideals are mouldering, capitalism is marching on, and press and art are prostituted, all centred about the hopeless love and reform plans of a young progressive squire afflicted by illness
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1889· 1 entry
After Pontoppidan met Antoinette Caroline Elise Kofoed
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1857· 1 entry
Born 1857-07-24.
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