biography
pronunciation:
[awkyayr]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1866–1930)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in Aakjaer, Denmark. A leader of the ‘Jutland movement’ in Danish literature, his works include the novel Vredens Børn (1904, Children of Wrath) and the poems of Rugens Sange (1906, Songs of the Rye). He wrote much in the Jutland dialect, into which he translated some of Burns's poems. |
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