Henrik Pontoppidan
Henrik Pontoppidan
Henrik Pontoppidanwas 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." Pontoppidan's novels and short stories — informed with a desire for social progress but despairing, later in his life, of its realization — present an unusually comprehensive picture of his country and his epoch. As a writer he was an interesting figure, distancing himself both from the conservative environment in which he was...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 July 1857
CountryDenmark
My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.