Johannes V. Jensen

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was born in 1873 in Farsø, in Himmerland, in northern Jutland, the son of a district veterinary surgeon from a background of peasants and craftsmen. He studied medicine for three years in Copenhagen, paying his way with his pen, then chose literature. A journalist, he travelled in Malaysia, China and the United States, was for a time a correspondent in Spain, and made the theory of evolution the thread of his work. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944 and died in Copenhagen in 1950.

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• NovelThe Fall of the KingKongens FaldJohannes V. Jensen · 1901LiteraturePublic domain