![]() In 1944, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for “combining intellectual curiosity of a wide scope with a bold, freshly creative style.” Tags: 20 January 1873, 25 November 1950, Johannes V. Johannes V Jensen died on 25 November 1950 in Copenhagen, Denmark. His theories of evolution were developed in six novels, Den lange rejse (1908–22), translated into English as The Long Journey (1923–24), and published in two volumes in 1938. His essays were mainly on anthropology and evolution. In 1906, Jensen published his greatest work: Digte 1906 (Poems 1906), which introduced the prose poem to Danish literature. ![]() He later wrote Madame d’Ora (1904) and Hjulet (1905 “The Wheel”). Jensen wrote his first masterpiece, Kongens Fald (1900–01 The Fall of the King, 1933) which is a modern historical novel about King Christian II. He got his start with Himmerland Stories (1898–19010), a series of tales set in his hometown of Denmark. He was influenced by fin-de-siècle pessimism in his early work as an author. ![]() After that, he studied medicine for three years at the University of Copenhagen. In 1893, he graduated from the Cathedral School of Viborg. Jensen was born on 20 January 1873, in Farsø, Jutland, Denmark. ![]() In 1944, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Jensen (20 January 1873 – 25 November 1950) was a Danish author, known as one of the great Danish writers of the first half of the 20th century. ![]()
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