bio notes:
born: 7/24/1857
died: 8/21/1943
born as: Henrik Pontoppidan

Realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917. Pontoppidan's novels and short stories-informed with a desire for social progress but despairing, later in his life, of its realization-presend an unusually comprehensive picture of his country and his epoch. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature