Gjellerup, Karl Adolf (kärl ä`dôlf yĕl`ər
p), 1857–1919, Danish poet and novelist, b. Sjæland. His early novels, naturalistic and partly autobiographical, include The Young Denmark (1879) and The Disciple of the Teutons (1882). Some of his later work shows the influence of Buddhism and Indian thought, as in The Pilgrim Kamanita (1906, tr. 1911). Gjellerup shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with Henrik Pontoppidan Pontoppidan, Henrik , 1857–1943, Danish novelist. He shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with Gjellerup. Pontoppidan devoted himself to engineering, journalism, and travel before the appearance of his first major work, The Promised Land (tr.
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p), 1857–1919, Danish poet and novelist, b. Sjæland. His early novels, naturalistic and partly autobiographical, include The Young Denmark (1879) and The Disciple of the Teutons (1882). Some of his later work shows the influence of Buddhism and Indian thought, as in The Pilgrim Kamanita (1906, tr. 1911). Gjellerup shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with Henrik Pontoppidan Pontoppidan, Henrik , 1857–1943, Danish novelist. He shared the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature with Gjellerup. Pontoppidan devoted himself to engineering, journalism, and travel before the appearance of his first major work, The Promised Land (tr...... Click the link for more information. .
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