Karl Adolph Gjellerup

Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1857-06-02 in Roholte, Denmark

Gender: male

Field: Danish writer

Biography

Karl Adolph Gjellerup was a Danish poet and novelist who together with his compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917. He is associated with the Modern Breakthrough period of Scandinavian literature. He occasionally used the pseudonym Epigonos.

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