Martin Andersen Nexø
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Martin Andersen Nexø see Nexø, Martin Andersen .
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Martin Andersen Nexø
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, 1869-1954, Danish novelist. Born one of 11 children in a Copenhagen slum, he spent his impoverished childhood largely on the island of Bornholm. Both locales appear centrally in his novels. His famous proletarian novels Pelle the Conqueror (4 vol., 1906-10; tr. 1930 and 1989) and Ditte, Daughter
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... essayist J. L. Heiberg ; two of his protégés were the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen , renowned for his fairy tales. Although S. S. Blicher may have been the first Danish realist, the actual ... became important, but were never the sole fruit of Danish literary endeavor. Both before and ...
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