WRITER

Martin Andersen Nexø

1869 - 1954

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Martin Andersen Nexø (26 June 1869 – 1 June 1954) was a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement in Danish art and literature. He was a socialist throughout his life and during the Second World War moved to the Soviet Union, and afterwards to Dresden in East Germany. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Andersen Nexø is the 1,134th most popular writer (down from 1,053rd in 2019), the 135th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 117th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Danish Writer.

Martin Andersen Nexø is most famous for his novel "Niels Lyhne" which was published in 1894. The novel is about a man who is unable to cope with the death of his father and commits suicide.

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Among writers, Martin Andersen Nexø ranks 1,134 out of 7,302. Before him are Will Durant, Leonid Andreyev, Sugawara no Michizane, Marie of Cleves, Duchess of Orléans, Walter Lippmann, and Johannes Valentinus Andreae. After him are Stobaeus, Zhuanxu, Catherine de Bourbon, David Lodge, Johanna Schopenhauer, and Sarojini Naidu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Martin Andersen Nexø ranks 37. Before him are Emilio Aguinaldo, Prince Aloys of Liechtenstein, Kasturba Gandhi, Prince George of Greece and Denmark, Francisco Largo Caballero, and Óscar Carmona. After him are Henri Désiré Landru, Élie Cartan, Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Carl Schuhmann, Max Hoffmann, and Gaetano Bresci. Among people deceased in 1954, Martin Andersen Nexø ranks 25. Before him are Léon Jouhaux, Lucien Tesnière, The French Angel, Clemens Krauss, and Hannes Meyer. After him are Auguste Perret, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Sadriddin Ayni, Ivan Ilyin, Thea von Harbou, and Marius Jacob.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Martin Andersen Nexø ranks 135 out of 1,032. Before him are Sveinn Björnsson (1881), John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852), Bjarne Stroustrup (1950), Princess Ingeborg of Denmark (1878), Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel (1784), and Louis Hjelmslev (1899). After him are Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950), Giancarlo Esposito (1958), Richard Møller Nielsen (1937), Piet Hein (1905), Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891), and Theophil Hansen (1813).

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Among WRITERS In Denmark

Among writers born in Denmark, Martin Andersen Nexø ranks 12. Before him are Karen Blixen (1885), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Tove Ditlevsen (1917), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), Georg Brandes (1842), and Sven Hassel (1917). After him are Jussi Adler-Olsen (1950), Adam Oehlenschläger (1779), Jeppe Aakjær (1866), Aksel Sandemose (1899), Ole Nydahl (1941), and Jens Fink-Jensen (1956).

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