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Martin Andersen Nexø
1869Jun, 26

Martin Andersen Nexø

Martin Andersen Nexø, Danish journalist and author (d. 1954)
Martin Andersen Nexø (26 June 1869 – 1 June 1954) was a Danish author. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement in Danish art and literature. He was a socialist throughout his life and during the second world war moved to the Soviet Union, and afterwards to Dresden in East Germany.

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