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Henrik Pontoppidan

Henrik Pontoppidan
🇩🇰 Kingdom of Denmark
1857-07-24 – 1943-08-21 (86 years old)

Foremost realist novelist of modern Scandinavia and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (1917) whose sweeping masterwork 'Lucky Per' (Lykke-Per) examined the moral and spiritual dilemmas of technological modern Denmark.

Rørvig, Odsherred, Denmark
Henrik Pontoppidan
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Henrik Pontoppidan

Henrik Pontoppidan
🇩🇰 Denmark
1857-07-24 – 1943-08-21 (86 years old)

Giant of Danish realism awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917 for his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark, author of the monumental novel Lykke-Per.

Rørvig, Denmark
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Otto Jespersen

Jens Otto Harry Jespersen
🇩🇰 Kingdom of Denmark
1860-07-16 – 1943-04-30 (82 years old)

Eminent linguist and phonetician whose monumental seven-volume 'Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles' and 'Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin' revolutionized modern English linguistics.

Copenhagen, Denmark
Jovan Dučić
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Jovan Dučić

Јован Дучић
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina
1871-02-17 – 1943-04-07 (72 years old)

Herzegovinian-born master symbolist poet and diplomat whose exquisite lyrical poetry and philosophical essays in 'Blago cara Radovana' ('Tsar Radovan's Treasure') are classics of South Slavic literature.

Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli
Literature & Poetry
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Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli

Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
1887-09-12 – 1943-01-03 (55 years old)

Distinguished diplomat, folklorist, and novelist widely identified as the core author behind the pseudonym Kurban Said of the internationally celebrated novel 'Ali and Nino'.

Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia
Yanka Kupala
Literature & Poetry
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Yanka Kupala

Янка Купала
🇧🇾 Belarus
1882-07-07 – 1942-06-28 (59 years old)

Spiritual and literary patriarch of modern Belarus whose iconic 1908 anthem 'A kto tam idzie?' ('Who Goes There?') declared the awakening and dignity of the Belarusian nation to the world.

Minsk, Belarus
Akiko Yosano
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Akiko Yosano

与謝野晶子 (Yosano Shoyo)
🇯🇵 Japan
1878 – 1942 (63 years old)

Groundbreaking Japanese poet, feminist, and social reformer (1878–1942) whose daring 1901 poetry collection 'Midaregami' (Tangled Hair) revolutionized modern tanka verse, and whose anti-war poem 'Thou Shalt Not Die' challenged militarism.

Fuchu (Tokyo), Japan
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery
🇨🇦 Canada
1874 – 1942 (67 years old)

World-renowned Prince Edward Island novelist whose 1908 classic Anne of Green Gables captured the hearts of millions of readers across the globe and established an enduring symbol of Canadian youth and imagination.

Cavendish (Prince Edward Island), Canada
Robert Musil
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Robert Musil

Robert Edler von Musil
🇦🇹 Austria
1880-11-06 – 1942-04-15 (61 years old)

One of the twentieth century's supreme modernist novelists whose monumental philosophical masterpiece 'Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften' ('The Man Without Qualities') dissected the decline of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Geneva, Switzerland
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Porfirio Barba-Jacob

Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez
🇨🇴 Colombia
1883-07-29 – 1942-01-14 (58 years old)

Tormented bohemian poet whose incandescent, melancholic verse—celebrated in 'Canción de la vida profunda' and 'Acuarimántima'—made him the archetypal 'poète maudit' of Latin American modernism.

Medellín, Colombia
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May Ziade

مي زيادة
🇵🇸 Palestine
11 February 1886 – 17 October 1941 (55 years old)

Brilliant Lebanese-Palestinian literary pioneer whose Tuesday salon in Cairo brought together the leading male and female minds of the Arab world.

Cairo, Egypt
Hjalmar Söderberg
Literature & Poetry
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Hjalmar Söderberg

Hjalmar Emil Fredrik Söderberg
🇸🇪 Sweden
1869-07-02 – 1941-10-14 (72 years old)

Master Swedish novelist and flâneur whose psychological masterpiece 'Doctor Glas' and tragic romance 'The Serious Game' are summits of fin-de-siècle Stockholm literature.

Copenhagen, Denmark
Rabindranath Tagore (Gurudev)
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Rabindranath Tagore (Gurudev)

রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
🇮🇳 India
7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941 (80 years old)

Towering polymath and spiritual voice of Asia who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) for Gitanjali, founded the open-air university Visva-Bharati at Santiniketan, and composed the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh.

Calcutta (Kolkata), India
Karin Boye
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Karin Boye

Karin Maria Boye
🇸🇪 Sweden
1900-10-26 – 1941-04-24 (40 years old)

Visionary modernist poet and author whose prophetic 1940 dystopian masterpiece 'Kallocain' anticipated Orwell's '1984', celebrated for her immortal poem 'Yes, of course it hurts when buds burst'.

Gothenburg, Sweden
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