Søren Gyldendal

Organization founder

1742 – 1802

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Who was Søren Gyldendal?

Søren Gyldendal was a Danish bookstore owner who in 1770 founded what was to become Denmark's largest publishing house, Gyldendal. Every year on his birthday, the Søren Gyldendal Foundation awards a prize in his name, the Søren Gyldendal Prize. Since 2009 the prize has been DKK 200,000. Every second year a fiction writer is awarded and every second year the prize goes to a non-fiction author.

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Born
Apr 12, 1742
Died
Feb 8, 1802

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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