Aksel Sandemose
Novelist, Award Winner
1899 – 1965
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Who was Aksel Sandemose?
Aksel Sandemose was a novelist, born in Nykøbing, Mors Island, Denmark to a Danish father and a Norwegian mother. He is the grandfather of illustrator and children's writer Iben Sandemose. Apart from his writing, in his early years he worked as a teacher, journalist, sailor and lumberjack in Newfoundland. Sandemose was one of six finalists for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963.
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- Born
- Mar 19, 1899
Nykøbing Mors - Also known as
- Axel Nielsen
- Spouses
- Hanne Holbek
(1962 - )
- Hanne Holbek
- Children
- Nationality
- Denmark
- Norway
- Profession
- Died
- Aug 6, 1965
Copenhagen
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on July 23, 2013
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