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Martin Andersen Nex was a Danish writer. He was the first significant Danish author to depict the working class in his writings, and the first Danish socialist, later communist, writer.

Martin Andersen Nex was born to a large family in Christianshavn, at the time an impoverished district of Copenhagen. In 1877, his family moved to Nex, and he adopted the name of this town as his last name. Having been an industrial worker before, in Nex he attended a folk high school, and later worked as a journalist. He spent the mid1890s travelling in Southern Europe, and his book Soldage is largely based on those travels. Like many of his literary contemporaries, including Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Nex was at first heavily influenced by findesicle pessimism, but gradually turned to a more extroverted view, joining the Social Democratic movement and later the Communist Party of Denmark his later books reflect his political support of the Soviet Union.

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