Henrik Pontoppidan
Henrik Pontoppidan (
1857-
1943) was a 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.
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