Pelle The Conqueror
de Martin Andersen Nexø
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Pelle the Conqueroris a Danish novel written byMartin Andersen Nexø.
The novel follows the characterPelle Karlsson, who immigrates to Denmark from Sweden in 1877 at age eight. At 18, he moves from Bornholm to Copenhagen, and becomes a leader in the labour movement in Denmark, motivated by poor working conditions.
Martin Andersen Nexø (26 June 1869 – 1 June 1954) was a Danish writer. He was one of the authors in the Modern Breakthrough movement in Danish art and literature. He was a socialist throughout his life and during the Second World War moved to the Soviet Union, and afterwards to Dresden in East Germany.
Translated from the Danish byJessie Muir and Bernard Miall.