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Born October 26, 1819 • Vordingborg • Denmark
Died August 15, 1887 (aged 67) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Founder “Corsaren”
Notable Works “Ravnen”

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Martin Andersen Nexø.
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Henrik Pontoppidan, 1917.
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Isak Dinesen, 1959
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Jens Peter Jacobsen, detail of an oil painting by E. Josephson, 1879; in the Nationalhistoriske Museum at Frederiksborg, Denmark.
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Ernest Hemingway
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Maxim Gorky
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Alice Walker
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Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Graham Greene, 1982
Graham Greene
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Salman Rushdie
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Isabel Allende
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