Pontoppidan

[ pon-top-i-dahn ]

noun
  1. Hen·rik [hen-reek], /ˈhɛn rik/, 1857–1943, Danish novelist: Nobel Prize 1917.

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Pontoppidan

/ (Danish pontˈtopidan) /


noun
  1. Henrik. 1857–1943, Danish novelist and short-story writer, author of the novel sequences The Promised Land (1891–95), Lykke-Per (1898–1904), and The Empire of Death (1912–16). Nobel prize for literature 1917

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