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Jacob Paludan

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Also known as: Stig Henning Jacob Puggaard Paludan
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February 7, 1896, Copenhagen
Died:
September 26, 1975, Birkerød, near Copenhagen (aged 79)
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Jacob Paludan (born February 7, 1896, Copenhagen—died September 26, 1975, Birkerød, near Copenhagen) was a Danish novelist and conservative critic whose work expressed a mistrust—based on the fear of Americanization of European culture—of Danish society and of the generation that followed World War I. Paludan traveled to Ecuador and the United States after World War I. He was the leading critic of the conservative Copenhagen newspaper Dagens Nyheder and was the editor of Hasselbalchs Kulturbibliotek, a book series that popularized arts and letters. He translated several books into Danish, most notably Sinclair Lewis’ Dodsworth. His foremost contribution, however, is that ...(100 of 125 words)

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