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Date of Birth
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19-March-1899
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Place of Birth
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Nykøbing Mors
(Denmark, Morsø Municipality)
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Nationality
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Denmark, Norway
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Also know as
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Axel Nielsen, Axel Nielsen
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Profession
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Novelist, Teacher, Journalist, Sailor, Lumberjack
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Aksel Sandemose was a novelist, born in Nykøbing, Mors Island, Denmark to a Danish father and a Norwegian mother. He is the grandfather of illustrator and children's writer Iben Sandemose. Apart from his writing, in his early years he worked as a teacher, journalist, sailor and lumberjack in Newfoundland. Sandemose was one of six finalists for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963.
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