Martin Andersen Nexø

Martin Andersen was born in 1869 in Christianshavn, a poor district of Copenhagen, the fourth of eleven children, and grew up in Nexø, on the island of Bornholm, whose name he would take. A herd boy and then a shoemaker's apprentice, he attended the folk high school at Askov for two winters and became a teacher; tubercular, he went to Spain and Italy for treatment. He broke with the Social Democrats for communism, was interned in 1941 under the occupation, escaped to Sweden and then the Soviet Union, settled in Dresden in 1951 and died there in 1954.

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• NovelPelle the ConquerorPelle ErobrerenMartin Andersen Nexø · 1910LiteraturePublic domain