Nobel laureate
Henrik Pontoppidan — Nobel Prize in Literature 1917
“for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark”
Prize motivation
“for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark”
The Swedish Academy awarded Henrik Pontoppidan the 1917 Nobel Prize in Literature for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark.
Other laureates of the 1910s
Sources & data
- Nobel Prize API (CC0).