Title: Nexø
Description: New illustrated biography from Denmark's leading Nexø researcher, Henrik Yde. Martin Andersen Nexø grew up in Copenhagen and on Bornholm, where he was a shoemaker. Already in the middle of life, he became known as the author of the international success of Pelle Erobrenner. Later, in life, he had to go into exile because of his political work on the political left, only contributing to the myth of the proletarian poet. But who was Martin Andersen Nexø really, and how should we read his works today? In this richly illustrated literary biography from Henrik Yde, we reach all the way around both man and the author Nexø. Yde reinterprets the writing and gives a unique insight into Nexø's complex person and the spectacular life he lived in a turbulent period of Europe's history.
Subjects: Danish Authors, Biography
People: Martin Andersen Nexø (1869-1954)