Henrik Pontoppidan

Born July 24, 1857· Fredericia, Danmark

† Died August 21, 1943

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Emerging from a family of Jutlandic vicars, he set aside engineering studies, taught primary school and ultimately turned to journalism before establishing himself as a full-time writer in the early 1880s. His early short-story collections, such as Village Pictures (1883) and From the Huts (1887), offered stark, unidealised portraits of rural peasants, while the politically charged Clouds (1890) c… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources