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born: 1/20/1873
died: 11/25/1950
born as: Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
nationality: Denmark

Danish novelist, poet, essayist, and writer of many myths who provoked much debate in his later years through his attempt to depict human development in the light of an idealized Darwinian theory. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1944. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature