photo Henrik Pontoppidan

Henrik Pontoppidan

Prize: Nobel Prize in Literature — 1917

for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark

Together with: Karl Adolph Gjellerup

Citizenship: Kingdom of Denmark
Languages: Danish
date of birth: 7/24/1857
place of birth: Fredericia
date of death: 8/21/1943
place of death: Copenhagen, Ordrup
Lived: 86 years

Nobel Prize in Literature: full list of laureates

occupation: writer
poet
novelist
autobiographer
prose writer
work location: Copenhagen

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