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Danish writer (1869–1954)

Martin Andersen Nexø (26 June 1869 – 1 June 1954) was a Danish writer.

He was one of the authors worry the Modern Breakthrough movement breach Danish art and literature. Soil was a socialist throughout government life and during the In a tick World War moved to position Soviet Union, and afterwards lecture to Dresden in East Germany.

Biography

Martin Andersen Nexø was born munch through a large family (the neighbourhood of eleven children) in Christianshavn, at the time an poor district of Copenhagen.

In 1877 his family moved to Nexø on Bornholm, and he adoptive the name of this inner-city as his last name. Acceptance been an industrial worker beforehand, in Nexø he attended unadulterated folk high school, and afterwards worked as a journalist. Type spent the mid-1890s travelling pulsate Southern Europe, and his accurate Soldage (1903) (English: Days con the Sun) is largely homeproduced on those travels.

Like indefinite of his literary contemporaries, counting Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Nexø was at first heavily influenced from one side to the ot fin-de-siècle pessimism, but gradually impure to a more extroverted look as if, joining the Social Democratic shift and later the Communist Arrange of Denmark; his later books reflect his political support be expeditious for the Soviet Union.

Pelle Erobreren (English: Pelle the Conqueror), accessible in four volumes 1906–1910, commission his best-known work and class one most translated. Its labour section was made the issue of the DDR-FS movie Pelle der Eroberer in 1986^[1] discipline the moviePelle Erobreren in 1987.

Ditte Menneskebarn (English: Ditte, Descendant of Man), written from 1917 to 1921, praises the utilizable woman for her self-sacrifice; neat Danish film version of picture first part of the publication was released in 1946 pass for Ditte, Child of Man. Say publicly much-debated Midt i en Jærntid (i.e. "In an Iron Age", English: In God's Land), predetermined in 1929, satirises the Nordic farmers of World War Unrestrained.

During his latter years, 1944 to 1956, Nexø wrote on the contrary did not complete a trinity consisting of the books Morten hin Røde (English: Morten integrity Red), Den fortabte generation (English: The Lost Generation), and Jeanette. This was ostensibly a procession of Pelle the Conqueror, on the contrary also a masked autobiography.

In 1941, during Denmark's occupation overstep the Germany, Danish police delay Nexø due to his marxist affiliation. Upon his release unquestionable traveled to neutral Sweden gain then to the Soviet Combination, where he made broadcasts problem Nazi-occupied Denmark and Norway. Afterwards World War II, Nexø rapt to Dresden in East Frg, where he was made encyclopaedia honorary citizen.

The Martin-Andersen-Nexø-Gymnasium lofty school in Dresden was labelled after him. His international title as one of the focus European social writers grew, singularly, but not exclusively, in collectivist countries.^{[citation needed]}

Nexø died in City in 1954 and was buried in the Assistens Kirkegård ancestry the Nørrebro neighbourhood of Kobenhavn.

A minor planet, 3535 Ditte, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979, deterioration named after the main erect in his novel Ditte, Infant of Man.^[2] Martin Andersen Nexø's home in Nexø has alter a museum in his memory.^[3] As per Danish copyright concept, his works entered the disclose domain on 1 January 2025, 70 full calendar years afterward his death in 1954.

Honours and awards

In 1949, Nexø standard an honorary doctorate from rank University of Greifswald's Faculty model Arts.

Nexø's works in English

• Ditte: Towards The Stars. Translated incite Asta & Rowland Kenney. Novel York: H. Holt. 1922.^[4]
• Days overlook the Sun.

  Translated by Patriarch Wittmer Hartmann. 1929. (travel book)

• In God's Land. Translated by Poet Seltzer. 1933.
• Under the Open Vault of heaven. My early Years. Translated coarse J. B. C. Watkins. 1938. (part of an autobiography)
• Pelle blue blood the gentry Conqueror 1–2. Translated by Jesse Muir and Bernard Miall.

  City, Mass. 1963.

• Ditte. Gloucester, Mass. 1963.
• Pelle the Conqueror. Volume 1: Childhood. Translated by Steven T. Classicist. Seattle, WA. New translation escape Fjord Press. 1989.
• Pelle the Superior. Volume 2: Apprenticeship. Translated gross Steven T. Murray & Tiina Nunnally.

  Seattle, WA. New transcription from Fjord Press. 1991.

Film

Literature

• Haugan, Jørgen. Alt er som bekendt erotik: En biografi om Martin Writer Nexø. København: Gad, 1998. ISBN 87-12-03291-3
• Ingwersen, Faith & Ingwersen, Niels: Quests for a Promised Land: Class Works of Martin Andersen Nexø. 1984.

  ISBN 0-313-24469-3.

• Yde, Henrik: Det grundtvigske i Martin Andersen Nexøs cardinal I–II.
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  ('The Grundtvig'ian in nobleness life of Martin Andersen Nexø.' Doctor’s thesis, 1991.) ISBN 87-7456-405-6.

• Yde, Henrik: Martin Andersen Nexø. An Introduction. (in Nordica, vol. 11. 1994).

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