Henrik Pontoppidan

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Pontoppidan, Henrik (24 July 1857 – 21 August 1943)

A Danish novelist and Nobel Prize winner, Pontoppidan early in life was a journalist.

In 1880 he was prosecuted for blasphemy. He later became a minister but reverted to Rationalism, writing a series of satirical novels.

{{Alfred Tennyson]] was inspired by his description of a mythical sea-monster, the kraken, which slept in the depths of the sea, an “ancient dreamless, uninvaded sleep” which Tennyson described as a “pained fascination with the thought of a life which somehow is not life at all.”

In 1917, he shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark."

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