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The Nobel Prize in Literature 1944

"for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style"
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
Denmark
b. 1873
d. 1950
 
 
 
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