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Born October 26, 1819 • Vordingborg • Denmark
Died August 15, 1887 (aged 67) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Founder “Corsaren”
Notable Works “Ravnen”

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Martin Andersen Nexø.
Martin Andersen Nexø
Danish author
Henrik Pontoppidan, 1917.
Henrik Pontoppidan
Danish author
Isak Dinesen, 1959
Isak Dinesen
Danish author
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
British artist and writer
Walter Allen
British writer
Jens Peter Jacobsen, detail of an oil painting by E. Josephson, 1879; in the Nationalhistoriske Museum at Frederiksborg, Denmark.
Jens Peter Jacobsen
Danish author
Sven Holm
Danish writer
Hans Christian Branner
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Gustav Wied
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Peter Seeberg
Danish author
Herman Bang
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Russian writer
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
American writer
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
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Graham Greene
Graham Greene
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James McBride
James McBride
American musician, journalist, and author
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami
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Salman Rushdie, 2008
Salman Rushdie
British-American writer
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín
Irish author