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Born June 2, 1857 • Denmark
Died October 11, 1919 (aged 62) • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1917)
Notable Works “Germanernes lærling”

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Johannes V. Jensen
Danish author
Henrik Pontoppidan, 1917.
Henrik Pontoppidan
Danish author
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
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Carl Spitteler
Swiss poet
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Jon Fosse
Jon Fosse
Norwegian author
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Bunin
Ivan Bunin
Russian author
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
Portrait of Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore with long wavy hair and a full beard, wearing a simple robe and looking directly at the camera.
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
Halldór Laxness
Halldór Laxness
Icelandic writer
Lagerkvist
Pär Lagerkvist
Swedish author
Miguel Ángel Asturias.
Miguel Ángel Asturias
Guatemalan author and diplomat
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Harry Martinson
Swedish author
Heidenstam
Verner von Heidenstam
Swedish author

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