The Fall of the King (1901) was acclaimed as the best Danish novel of the 20th century by the newspapers Politiken and Berlingske Tidende, independently of each other
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Johannes V. Jensen
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was a Danish author, known as one of the great Danish writers of the first half of 20th century. He was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style". One of his sisters, Thit Jensen, was also a well-known writer and…
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Born 20 January 1873 · Died 25 November 1950 · Q159552
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1950· 1 entry
Died 1950-11-25.
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1944· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1944).
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1938· 1 entry
Sometimes called an "evolutionary bible" of mankind
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1918· 1 entry
Awarded Drachmannlegatet (1918).
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1906· 1 entry
Jensen published his first collection of poetry, Digte 1906 (i
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1873· 1 entry
Born 1873-01-20.
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