Karl Adolph Gjellerup

Karl Adolph Gjellerup
Karl Adolph Gjellerup
Born	(1857-06-02)2 June 1857 Roholte vicarage at Præstø, Denmark
Died	11 October 1919(1919-10-11) (aged 62) Klotzsche, Germany
Nationality	Danish
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Literature 1917 (shared)

Karl Adolph Gjellerup (Danish: [ˈkʰɑˀl ˈɛːˌtʌlˀf ˈkelˀəʁɔp]; 2 June 1857 – 11 October 1919) was a Danish poet and novelist who together with his compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917. He is associated with the Modern Breakthrough period of Scandinavian literature. He occasionally used the pseudonym Epigonos.