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Pontoppidan

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Pon·top·pi·dan  (pn-tp-dn, -dän), Henrik 1857-1943.
Danish writer known for his three-novel series The Promised Land (1891-1895). He shared the 1917 Nobel Prize for literature.
Pontoppidan (Danish) [pontˈtopidan]
n
(Biographies / Pontoppidan, Henrik (1857-1943) M, Danish, WRITING: novelist, WRITING: short-story writer, (1898-1904), and The Empire of Death (1912-16)) Henrik. 1857-1943, Danish novelist and short-story writer, author of the novel sequences The Promised Land (1891-95), Lykke-Per (1898-1904), and The Empire of Death (1912-16). Nobel prize for literature 1917


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