Henrik Pontoppidan
Writing
July 24, 1857
Died at age 86
August 21, 1943
Date of Death
Fredericia, Danmark
Biography
Henrik Pontoppidan was a Danish realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." He was the youngest and in many ways the most original and influential member of the Modern Break-Through.