• The Holberg Medal (Danish: Holberg-Medaljen) is an award to a Danish author of fiction or writer on science. It is an appreciation of a literary or scientific...
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  • movements written by Edvard Grieg The Holberg Prize, established by the government of Norway The Holberg Medal, an award to a Danish author of fiction...
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    the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat in 1935, and with the Holberg Medal in 1940. She was awarded the Royal Medal of Recompense in 1949 and was inducted as a member...
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    literary accomplishments, Blixen was awarded the Danish Holberg Medal in 1949, the Ingenio et Arti medal in 1952 , granted the inaugural Hans Christian Andersen...
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    awarded the Drachmannlegatet in 1946, De Gyldne Laurbær in 1949, and the Holberg Medal in 1952. Hansen was born on 20 August 1909 in Strøby, a small town on...
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  • was awarded the Grand Prize of the Danish Academy. He was awarded the Holberg Medal in 1991. In 2001, Holm was made a member of the Danish Academy. That...
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  • literary awards including De Gyldne Laurbær (1950, for Rytteren), the Holberg Medal (1954) and the Danish Playwrights' Honorary Award (1961). Hans Christian...
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    national community was his favorite theme. In 1937 he received the Holberg Medal, and in 1937 and 1938 he was nominated for the Nobel prize in literature...
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    other things in between." He was awarded the Danish literary prize Holberg Medal in 1960. He received The Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1965 for...
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  • including Ingenio et Arti (1933), the Order of the Dannebrog (1947) and the Holberg Medal (1950). Seedorff attended the Aarhus Cathedral School and later Marselisborg...
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  • was awarded "Den store pris" from the Danish Academy in 1982 and the Holberg Medal in 1997. A recognized writer, he was included in the Danish Culture...
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    was adapted into the 2006 film The Art of Crying. Jepsen won the 2004 Holberg Medal for his contributions to Danish drama. 2002: The Art of Crying in Harmony...
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    Book Prize of the Community of Tórshavn (for Ævintýr I-VI) 1982: The Holberg Medal General The information in this article is based on and/or translated...
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    Olsen received the Otto Gelsted Prize, and the year after she won the Holberg Medal for her overall body of work up to that point. She later received the...
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    years before his death. As the author of several books, he received the Holberg Medal (1970), the Danish Authors' Association's Prize of Literature (1975)...
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  • sciences, after the Holberg Prize and the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. The British Academy medal is no longer being awarded...
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  • Jeanne and Henri Nathansen Grant 1947 Otto Benzon Writer's Grant 1947 Holberg Medal 1948 Order of the Dannebrog 1949 Henrik Pontoppidan Memorial Grant 1950...
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  • grant in 1997. She has also received the Kjeld Abell Prize and the Holberg Medal. Cody, Gabrielle H; Sprinchorn, Evert (2007). The Columbia Encyclopedia...
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  • Herman Bangs Mindelegat in 1959, Drachmannlegatet in 1965, and the Holberg Medal 1966. He died on 13 October 1993 and is buried at Krogstrup Cemetery...
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    Natalie Zemon Davis (category Holberg Prize laureates)
    Neilson, was in 1943). Davis was awarded the Holberg International Memorial Prize and National Humanities Medal and was named Companion of the Order of Canada...
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  • including the University of Copenhagen Gold medal, the Tietgenkollegeit Medal and, in 1934, the Holberg Medal, becoming its first recipient. He was an honorary...
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    Marina Warner (category Holberg Prize laureates)
    College, Oxford, since 2019. In 2015, having received the prestigious Holberg Prize, Warner decided to use the award to start the Stories in Transit...
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  • McDermott, a young mixed-blood fur trader. The novel, illustrated by Richard Holberg, was first published in 1940 and was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1941...
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  • office in 1737. Røg and Ludvig Holberg attended Bergen Latin School at the same time. They met in Paris in 1715. Røg lent Holberg his royal travel passport...
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    of Karen Blixen, penname Isak Dinesen, (1885–1962), the plays of Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), modern authors such as Herman Bang and Nobel laureate Henrik...
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  • awarded the Holberg Prize, considered Sociology's Nobel". Catalan News Agency. 7 June 2012. "Sociologist Manuel Castells wins 2012 Holberg Prize". University...
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    Ronald Dworkin (category Holberg Prize laureates)
    Medal with Judge Richard Posner. In September 2007, Dworkin was awarded the Holberg International Memorial Prize. The award citation of the Holberg Prize...
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    litteraturhistorie: bd. Den danske littterature fra folkevandringstiden indtil Holberg, af C.S. Petersen under medvirkning af R. Paulli (in Danish). Gyldendai...
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    Martha Nussbaum (category Holberg Prize laureates)
    Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, the 2018 Berggruen Prize, and the 2021 Holberg Prize. In recent years, she has also been considered a candidate for the...
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    Wilhelm Marstrand (category Recipients of the Thorvaldsen Medal)
    Cervantes, as well as from Erasmus Montanus, or other plays by Ludvig Holberg. Holberg's works would in fact provide Marstrand with an endless stream of inspiration...
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