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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIVI, Issue 17700, 29 January 1918, Page 6

The Nobel prize for literature for 1917 is- to be divided between the Danish authors, Karl Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidnn. Doth authors have made their mark in fiction. Karl Gjellerup, who is Sixty years of age, scored his first important success in 1882 with a satirical novel, V The Disciple of the Teutons.’ Henrik Pou-t-oppidan, who is the same age as Gjellerup, is best known for his great novel in eight volumes, “ Lykke-Pcr.”