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3 unusual facts about Martin Andersen Nexø


Martin Andersen Nexø

The Martin-Andersen-Nexø-Gymnasium high school in Dresden was named after him.

A minor planet, 3535 Ditte, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1979, is named after the main character in his novel Ditte, Child of Man.

Pelle Hvenegaard

It is based on a critically acclaimed series of novels by socialist writer Martin Andersen Nexø (1869–1954) about the life of a Swedish boy named Pelle who moves to Denmark with his father Lasse for a better life.



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