Is named after the main character in his novel Ditte, Child of Man
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Martin Andersen Nexø
Martin Andersen Nexø was a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement or more precisely "Det Folkelige Gennembrud" - the popular breakthrough - 1890s-1920, a movement dominated by writers from a shallow social background (in Danish art and literature. He was a socialist throughout his life and during the Second World War moved to the Soviet Union, and afterwards t…
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culture · Danish writer (1869–1954) · journalist · writer · autobiographer · also Martin Andersen Nexø, Nexø
Born 26 June 1869 · Died 1 June 1954 · Q168569
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1954· 2 entries
Died 1954-06-01.
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And was interred in the Assistens Kirkegård in the Nørrebro neighbourhood of Copenhagen
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1949· 1 entry
Nexø received an honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald's Faculty of Arts
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1941· 1 entry
During Denmark's occupation by Germany, Danish police arrested Nexø due to his communist affiliation
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1929· 1 entry
Satirises the Danish farmers of World War I
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1877· 1 entry
His family moved to Nexø on Bornholm, and he adopted the name of this town as his last name
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1869· 1 entry
Born 1869-06-26.
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