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Henrik Pontoppidan
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Henrik Pontoppidan

Author · born July 24, 1857 · died 1943

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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."

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  1. ~60Received the Nobel Prize in Literature1917

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