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Johannes V. Jensen

1873 - 1950

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Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (Danish pronunciation: [joˈhænˀəs ˈvilhelˀm ˈjensn̩]; 20 January 1873 – 25 November 1950) was a Danish author, known as one of the great Danish writers of the first half of 20th century. He was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style". One of his sisters, Thit Jensen, was also a well-known writer and a very vocal, and occasionally controversial, early feminist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes V. Jensen is the 196th most popular writer (up from 260th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 27th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Writer.

Johannes V. Jensen is most famous for his novel "The Emperor's New Clothes."

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Among writers, Johannes V. Jensen ranks 196 out of 7,302. Before him are Sigrid Undset, Halldór Laxness, Petronius, Georges Simenon, Tove Jansson, and Fuzûlî. After him are Menander, François-René de Chateaubriand, Orhan Pamuk, Friedrich Hölderlin, Joseph Conrad, and Geoffrey Chaucer.

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Among people born in 1873, Johannes V. Jensen ranks 5. Before him are Sergei Rachmaninoff, Thérèse of Lisieux, Thomas Andrews, and Enrico Caruso. After him are Lee de Forest, Leon Czolgosz, Konstantin von Neurath, Colette, Jules Rimet, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, and Alexis Carrel. Among people deceased in 1950, Johannes V. Jensen ranks 5. Before him are George Orwell, Vallabhbhai Patel, George Bernard Shaw, and Gustaf V of Sweden. After him are Joseph Schumpeter, Norman Haworth, Vaslav Nijinsky, Albert Lebrun, Léon Blum, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, and Heinrich Mann.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Johannes V. Jensen ranks 17 out of 1,032. Before him are Christian X of Denmark (1870), Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), Vitus Bering (1681), Christian VIII of Denmark (1786), Maria Feodorovna (1847), and Sigrid Undset (1882). After him are John, King of Denmark (1455), Ivar the Boneless (900), Ole Rømer (1644), Christian VI of Denmark (1699), Gorm the Old (900), and Christian II of Denmark (1481).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Johannes V. Jensen ranks 4. Before him are Hans Christian Andersen (1805), Karl Adolph Gjellerup (1857), and Sigrid Undset (1882). After him are Henrik Pontoppidan (1857), 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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