Karl Adolph Gjellerup
Danish writer (1857–1919)
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A Danish writer who shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with another Dane — a rare double win that put two countrymen on the same podium for a prize usually handed to one.
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Karl Adolph Gjellerup was born on 2 June 1857 in Denmark and became a poet and novelist during the Modern Breakthrough, the period that rewired Scandinavian literature. He sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Epigonos. In 1917, he and compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died on 11 October 1919.
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