Henrik Pontoppidan(1857-1943)
- Writer
Henrik Pontoppidan was born on 24 July 1857 in Fredericia, Denmark. He was a writer, known for Thora van Deken (1920), A Fortunate Man (2018) and A Fortunate Man (2018). He was married to Antoinette Kofoed and Mette Marie Hansen. He died on 21 August 1943 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- SpousesAntoinette Kofoed1892 - 1928 (her death, 2 children)
- TriviaWas awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917.
- QuotesI turned to the novel, an artistic form which had in former days been neglected and had thus acquired a bad reputation, but which during the nineteenth century had developed and elevated itself to the ranks occupied by drama and the ancient epic.
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