Johannes V. Jensen
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Johannes V. Jensen 🇩🇰

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen (Known as "Johannes V. Jensen")
Nobel Laureate in Literature, Novelist, Poet, Author of The Fall of the King
Born 1873-01-20 🇩🇰 Farsø, Denmark
Passed Away 1950-11-25 Copenhagen, Denmark
Lifespan 77 years old
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Foremost 20th-century Danish writer awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Literature, author of The Fall of the King, voted Denmark's greatest novel of the century.

Biographical Record

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen was born on January 20, 1873, in Farsø, Himmerland. The son of a veterinary surgeon, he studied medicine before choosing a literary career influenced by evolutionary biology, Charles Darwin, and Walt Whitman.

Jensen made his historic breakthrough with Kongens Fald (The Fall of the King, 1900–1901), a harrowing historical novel depicting King Christian II and the psychological tragedy of Danish national vacillation. He wrote the six-volume evolutionary epic Den lange Rejse (The Long Journey, 1908–1922) and introduced American-style free-verse modernism to Danish poetry with his 1906 collection Digte. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944.

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Bispebjerg Cemetery
Copenhagen, Denmark
GPS: 55.7142, 12.5358
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