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Martin Andersen Nexø

Martin Andersen Nexø (26 June 1869 – 1 June 1954) was a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement in Danish art and literature. He was a socialist throughout his life and during the Second World War moved to the Soviet Union, and afterwards to Dresden in East Germany.

Martin Andersen Nexø

(1869-06-26)26 June 1869
Copenhagen, Denmark

1 June 1954(1954-06-01) (aged 84)
Dresden, East Germany

Writer

Danish

Honours and awards[edit]

In 1949, Nexø received an honorary doctorate from the University of Greifswald's Faculty of Arts.

Ditte: Towards The Stars. Translated by Asta & Rowland Kenney. New York: H. Holt. 1922.

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Days in the Sun. Translated by Jacob Wittmer Hartmann. 1929. (travel book)

In God's Land. Translated by Thomas Seltzer. 1933.

Under the Open Sky. My early Years. Translated by J. B. C. Watkins. 1938. (part of an autobiography)

Pelle the Conqueror 1–2. Translated by Jesse Muir and . Gloucester, Mass. 1963.

Bernard Miall

Ditte. Gloucester, Mass. 1963.

. Translated by Steven T. Murray. Seattle, WA. New translation from Fjord Press. 1989.

Pelle the Conqueror. Volume 1: Childhood

Pelle the Conqueror. Volume 2: Apprenticeship. Translated by Steven T. Murray & Tiina Nunnally. Seattle, WA. New translation from Fjord Press. 1991.

1946: – directed by : Bjarne Henning-Jensen

Ditte, Child of Man

1958: – directed by : Joachim Kunert

Der Lotterieschwede

1985: Pelle der Eroberer (TV series) – directed by : Christian Steinke

1987: – directed by : Bille August

Pelle the Conqueror

1993: Dockpojken – directed by : Hilda Hellwigs

. Alt er som bekendt erotik: En biografi om Martin Andersen Nexø. København: Gad, 1998. ISBN 87-12-03291-3

Haugan, Jørgen

Ingwersen, Faith & : Quests for a Promised Land: The Works of Martin Andersen Nexø. 1984. ISBN 0-313-24469-3.

Ingwersen, Niels

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

ISBN

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

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