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Henrik Pontoppidan

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Books by Henrik Pontoppidan

The White Bear

Love, faith, and the political mingle in these two short novels by a Nobel Prize-winning Danish author. One about a young couple making a new life in Rome, the other about a priest who goes to live among native peoples in Greenland, both books explore the reaches of the human heart through their complex and unforgettable characters.

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Lucky Per

This sweeping neglected 1904 novel is a Modernist masterpiece and arguably 'the great Danish novel' – but is only newly available in English.

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