Martin Andersen Nexø

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Martin Andersen Nexø
Nexø in the 1950s
Nexø in the 1950s
Born(1869-06-26)26 June 1869
Copenhagen, Denmark
Died1 June 1954(1954-06-01) (aged 84)
Dresden, East Germany
OccupationWriter
NationalityDanish
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Martin Andersen Nexø (26 June 1869 – 1 June 1954) was a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the

Second World War
moved to the Soviet Union, and afterwards to Dresden in East Germany.

Biography

Martin Andersen Nexø was born into a large family (the fourth of eleven children) in

extroverted view, joining the Social Democratic movement and later the Communist Party of Denmark; his later books reflect his political support of the Soviet Union
.

Pelle Erobreren (English: Pelle the Conqueror), published in four volumes 1906–1910, is his best-known work and the one most translated. Its first section was made the subject of the DDR-FS movie Pelle der Eroberer in 1986[1] and the movie Pelle Erobreren in 1987. Ditte Menneskebarn (English: Ditte, Child of Man), written from 1917 to 1921, praises the working woman for her self-sacrifice; a Danish film version of the first part of the book was released in 1946 as Ditte, Child of Man. The much-debated Midt i en Jærntid (i.e. "In an Iron Age", English: In God's Land), written in 1929, satirises the Danish farmers of World War I. During his latter years, 1944 to 1956, Nexø wrote but did not complete a trilogy consisting of the books Morten hin Røde (English: Morten the Red), Den fortabte generation (English: The Lost Generation), and Jeanette. This was ostensibly a continuation of Pelle the Conqueror, but also a masked autobiography.

In 1941, during

Martin-Andersen-Nexø-Gymnasium high school in Dresden was named after him. His international reputation as one of the greatest European social writers grew, especially, but not exclusively, in socialist countries.[citation needed
]

Nexø died in Dresden in 1954 and was interred in the

Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979, is named after the main character in his novel Ditte, Child of Man.[2]
Martin Andersen Nexø's home in Nexø has become a museum in his memory.[3]

Martin Andersen Nexo as a child

Honours and awards

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

Nexø's works in English

  • Ditte: Towards The Stars. Translated by Asta & Rowland Kenney. New York: H. Holt. 1922.[4]
  • 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 Bernard Miall. Gloucester, Mass. 1963.
  • Ditte. Gloucester, Mass. 1963.
  • Pelle the Conqueror. Volume 1: Childhood. Translated by Steven T. Murray. Seattle, WA. New translation from Fjord Press. 1989.
  • Pelle the Conqueror. Volume 2: Apprenticeship. Translated by Steven T. Murray & Tiina Nunnally. Seattle, WA. New translation from Fjord Press. 1991.

Film

Literature

References

  1. ^ "Pelle der Eroberer". IMDb.com. 1 January 1986. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
  2. ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (5th ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. p. 297.
    ISBN 3-540-00238-3
    .
  3. ^ "Welkomme". Andersennexoe.dk. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Ditte : towards the stars". archive.org. 1922.

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