| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | |
| Year: | 1942 |
| Number: | 2 - 5 |
| Nominee: |
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| Name: | Johannes V Jensen |
| Gender: | M |
| Year, Birth: | 1873 |
| Year, Death: | 1950 |
| Profession: | Author |
| Country: | DENMARK (DK) |
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1944 | |
| Nominator: |
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| Name: | Jens Thiis |
| Gender: | M |
| Profession: | Museum official, art historian |
| City: | Oslo |
| Country: | NORWAY (NO) |
| Comments: | J. Jensen was nominated by F. Poulsen, J. Thiis and Didrik A. Seip, as well as members of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (K. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab and the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, humanities section. |