Henrik Pontoppidan
Jul 24, 1857 - Aug 21, 1943 (86 years old) in Fredericia, Danmark
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.