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"for his varied and rich poetry, which is inspired by lofty ideals" Born | : | June 2, 1857 | Place of birth | : | Denmark | Died | : | October 13, 1919 | Place of death | : | Klotzsche, Germany | Occupation | : | Writer | Nationality | : | Danish | Notable award(s) | : | Nobel Prize in Literature 1917 [1/2 of the prize] |
Biography: Karl Adolf Karl Gjellerup, born June 2, 1857 in Roholte in Præstø municipality, the death Oct. 11, 1919 in Klotzsche near Dresden, Germany, was a Danish author.
He took theology degree 1878, although he was already FREE. Gjellerup debut as a writer that year with a tendentious contemporary story, an idealist who was followed by the equally against the theology targeted the young Denmark (1879) and the opolemiska Antigonous (1880). He departed, however, soon to be radical social critic and proposed instead into an idealistic line with elements of classicism. Later, he became, by Arthur Schopenhauer, inspired by Indian philosophy and Buddhism. |
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"for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark" Born | : | July 24, 1857 | Place of birth | : | Fredericia, Denmark | Died | : | August 21, 1943 | Place of death | : | Charlottenlund | Occupation | : | Realist writer | Nationality | : | Danish | Notable award(s) | : | Nobel Prize in Literature 1917 [1/2 of the prize] |
Biography: Henrik Pontoppidan, born July 24, 1857 in Fredericia, died Aug. 21, 1943 in Charlottenlund, was a Danish author. Prästson from Fredericia, 1874, the so-called " adgangsexamen to the Polytechnic Læreanstalt (Technical College), but not completed their engineering studies. He was a teacher at the time his brother Morten Pontoppidan folk and devoted themselves after 1881 to vittert authors. He stayed well in Copenhagen, and in rural areas and in several small towns and even some abroad. He was also the brother of the doctor and professor Knud Pontoppidan. |
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"in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring" Born | : | April 24, 1845 | Died | : | December 29, 1924 | Occupation | : | Poet | Nationality | : | Swiss | Notable award(s) | : | Nobel Prize in Literature 1919 |
Biography: Carl Spitteler (n. Liestal, Switzerland, April 24, 1845 - † Lucerne, December 29, 1924). Swiss writer in German.
He studied law at Zurich University in 1863. Between 1865 and 1870, he studied theology in Zurich, Heidelberg, and Basel. Preceptor was in Russia until August 1871 and subsequently schoolteacher in Bern and in The Neuveville.
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"for his monumental work, Growth of the Soil" Born | : | August 4, 1859 | Place of birth | : | Vågå, Gudbrandsdal–Norway | Died | : | February 19, 1952 | Place of death | : | Grimstad, Nørholm, Norway | Occupation | : | Author, Poet, Dramatist, Social critic | Nationality | : | Norwegian | Notable award(s) | : | Nobel Prize in Literature 1920 |
Biography: After several disappointing attempts fiction (Bjorge, Man secret), Hamsun chooses exile in the United States. On his return he published a few chapters of her novel Sult (Hunger), which is published in full in 1890. This semi-autobiographical work describes the dark months of its narrator, wandering in the streets of Christiania, before it n'embarque on a boat and leaves the Norwegian capital. The criticism has long interpreted the novel as belonging to the naturalistic vein. But the hero of the novel is in no way a poor who can not earn enough money for food. This "hunger", it causes it and cherishes it is his writing, his muse. The money he can receive newspapers to whom he proposed articles is very quickly dissipated by the narrator, often so altruistic. In many respects, this novel announces the writings of Franz Kafka and other writers of the twentieth century who write about madness and the condition of contemporary man. This book has become one of the most important literature of the twentieth century. |
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