WRITER

Henrik Pontoppidan

1857 - 1943

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Henrik Pontoppidan (Danish: [ˈhenˀʁek pʰʌnˈtsʰʌpitæn]; 24 July 1857 – 21 August 1943) 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." 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. As a writer he was an interesting figure, distancing himself both from the conservative environment in which he was brought up and from his socialist contemporaries and friends. He was the youngest and in many ways the most original and influential member of the Modern Break-Through. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henrik Pontoppidan is the 252nd most popular writer (up from 275th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Denmark and the 5th most popular Danish Writer.

Henrik Pontoppidan is most famous for his novel, "Niels Lyhne."

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Among writers, Henrik Pontoppidan ranks 252 out of 7,302. Before him are Gerhart Hauptmann, C. S. Lewis, Mansur Al-Hallaj, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Osamu Dazai, and Grazia Deledda. After him are Dario Fo, Johanna Spyri, Joseph Heller, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jaroslav Hašek, and J. K. Rowling.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1857, Henrik Pontoppidan ranks 10. Before him are Clara Zetkin, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Edward Elgar, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, and Joseph Conrad. After him are Ruggero Leoncavallo, Alfonso XII of Spain, William Howard Taft, Ronald Ross, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Alfred Binet. Among people deceased in 1943, Henrik Pontoppidan ranks 9. Before him are Isoroku Yamamoto, Pieter Zeeman, Simone Weil, Karl Landsteiner, and Camille Claudel. After him are Boris III of Bulgaria, Theodor Eicke, Sophie Scholl, Henri La Fontaine, Yakov Dzhugashvili, Chaim Soutine, and Władysław Sikorski.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Henrik Pontoppidan ranks 30 out of 1,032. Before him are George I of Greece (1845), Ubba (1000), Sweyn Forkbeard (960), Christian IV of Denmark (1577), Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark (1968), and Björn Ironside (800). After him are Fredrik Bajer (1837), Alexandra of Denmark (1844), Christian VII of Denmark (1749), Karen Blixen (1885), Aage Bohr (1922), and Frederick VI of Denmark (1768).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Henrik Pontoppidan ranks 5. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen (1805), Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), Sigrid Undset (1882), and Johannes V. Jensen (1873). After him are Karen Blixen (1885), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Tove Ditlevsen (1917), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), Georg Brandes (1842), Sven Hassel (1917), and Martin Andersen Nexø (1869).

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