Karl Adolph Gjellerup is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Karl Adolph Gjellerup as Danish writer (1857–1919).
Karl Adolph Gjellerup was born at Roholte in 1857. His recorded nationality is Denmark.
The nineteenth century was the age of the serialised novel and mass literacy; writers reached audiences of a size never seen before.
He worked as poet, writer and novelist.
Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
The honours record reads: Nobel Prize in Literature (1917).
That the work was written from Denmark matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Karl Adolph Gjellerup died in 1919, aged 62. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
Achievements
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 1917
