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Johannes V Jensen

Biography of Johannes V Jensen

Johannes V. Jensen was a Danish writer, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1944. He won the award for, according to Nobel Prize website, "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style". He tried relentlessly to work anthropology and theory of evolution into his writing.

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Awards for Johannes V Jensen

1944: Nobel Prize in Literature

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Quotes by Johannes V Jensen

For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.