Answer the following about everyone’s favorite Danish author, Henrik Pontoppidan, for 10 points each.
[10m] He and Karl Gjellerup co-won the 1917 Nobel for their work with the Modern Breakthrough, a Scandinavian branch of this movement. August Strindberg drew on Émile Zola’s work in this movement for his play Miss Julie.
ANSWER: naturalism [or naturalist; prompt on realism]
[10h] Pontoppidan’s most famous novel is titled for a “Lucky” man with this first name, who leaves his religious parents to become an engineer. A Norwegian author with this first name wrote the 2003 novel Out Stealing Horses.
ANSWER: Per [accept Lykke-Per or Lucky Per; accept Per Petterson; prompt on Peter Sidenius by asking “what is his title nickname?”]
[10e] Pontoppidan’s story “Eagle’s Flight,” in which an eagle grows fat after being raised among hens, riffs on this Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale whose title character joins a pack of swans.
ANSWER: “The Ugly Duckling” [or Den grimme ælling]
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