The Nobel Prize in Literature 1944
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1944 was awarded to Johannes Vilhelm Jensen "for the rare strength and fertility of his poetic imagination with which is combined an intellectual curiosity of wide scope and a bold, freshly creative style"
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