Henrik Pontoppidan
writer
- Gender: Male
- Birthday: 1857-07-24
- Day of Death: 1943-08-21 ( 86 years old )
- Place of Birth: Frederica, Denmark
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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.