Peter Nansen

{{Short description|Danish novelist, journalist, and publisher}}{{Infobox Author

| name = Peter Nansen

| image = Peter Nansen 1898.jpg

| caption = Peter Nansen, 1898

| death_date = {{Death-date and age| July 13, 1918 | 20 January 1861 }}

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1861|01|20}}

| birth_place = Copenhagen, Denmark

| death_place = Mariager, Denmark

| notable_works = Love's Trilogy

}}

Peter Nansen (20 January 1861 – 31 July 1918) was a Danish novelist, journalist, and publisher.

He is best known as the author of the novels Julie's Diary, Marie, and God's Peace, which together constitute Love's Trilogy.{{cite web |url=http://www.adl.dk/adl_pub/fportraet/cv/ShowFpItem.xsql?nnoc=adl_pub&ff_id=30&p_fpkat_id=fskab |title=Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur - Peter Nansen - Forfatterportræt |website=www.adl.dk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704032301/http://adl.dk/adl_pub/fportraet/cv/ShowFpItem.xsql?nnoc=adl_pub&ff_id=30&p_fpkat_id=fskab |archive-date=2007-07-04}} Marie in particular became in short order very highly esteemed, and Pierre Bonnard's illustrations (which appeared in 1897 in La Revue Blanche) for the novel were much admired by Renoir.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pierrebonnard.com/bio.shtml|title = Bio}} An English translation of Love's Trilogy by Julia Le Gallienne (the second wife of Richard Le Gallienne) appeared in 1908.

Nansen was born in Copenhagen and worked for two decades for the publishing house Gyldendal.{{Cite web |url=http://www.adl.dk/adl_pub/fportraet/cv/ShowFpItem.xsql?nnoc=adl_pub&ff_id=30&p_fpkat_id=biog |title=Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur - Peter Nansen - Forfatterportræt |access-date=2011-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719120544/http://www.adl.dk/adl_pub/fportraet/cv/ShowFpItem.xsql?nnoc=adl_pub&ff_id=30&p_fpkat_id=biog |archive-date=2011-07-19 |url-status=dead }} It was in his capacity as an editor at Gyldendal that he famously told Sigrid Undset not to attempt to write any more historical novels because she had "no talent for it."{{cite web |url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/undset.htm |title=Sigrid Undset |website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=Kuusankoski Public Library |location=Finland |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604210443/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/undset.htm |archivedate=4 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}

His second wife was the actress Betty Nansen. He died in 1918 in Mariager, a small town in central Denmark.

He is generally regarded as having been very much influenced by the critic Georg Brandes.{{cite web |url=http://www.adl.dk/adl_pub/fportraet/cv/ShowFpItem.xsql?nnoc=adl_pub&ff_id=30&p_fpkat_id=indl |title=Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur - Peter Nansen - Forfatterportræt |website=www.adl.dk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607000241/http://adl.dk/adl_pub/fportraet/cv/ShowFpItem.xsql?ff_id=30&p_fpkat_id=indl&nnoc=adl_pub |archive-date=2007-06-07}}