Naomi Lebowitz
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Naomi Gordon Lebowitz is a literary philosopher, author, critic, and scholar of American, English, Scandinavian, and continental European literature, as well as a translator of Danish fiction.
Lebowitz in 2012
Henrik Pontoppidan
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Henrik Pontoppidan was a Danish realist writer who shared with Karl Gjellerup the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1917 for "his authentic descriptions of present-day life in Denmark." Pontoppidan's nove
Naomi Lebowitz
…however, have validated her importance as a scholar, critic, and philosopher. Lebowitz's acclaimed translation of the Nobel-Prize winning Danish author Henrik Pontoppidan's 1917 novel Lykke-Per (English: Lucky Per) was published in 2010. In Lebowitz's "fluent and lucid version", Lucky Per was hailed by James Wood in The…
Pontoppidan c. 1913
Pontoppidan c. 1874
Portrait of Pontoppidan by Michael Ancher (1908)