Inger Christensen

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  Anna Juul

  Anna Juul, f. 1992 er uddannet manuskriptforfatter fra Den Danske Filmskole og har arbejdet med radio, tv og bøger. Hun har bl.a. været forfatter på programmet Den Korte Radioavis på Radio24syv. I 2019 debuterede hun med digtromanen Jeg bruger min krop som et møbel under aliasset Veronika Katinka. Anna Juul har skrevet og spillet hovedrollen i tv-serien Min Kamp, der handler om samme karakter, og hun står bag serien Fantomforhold. I 2022 udgav hun romanen Penge & Bacon.

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  Emma Holten

  Emma Holten (born 1991) is a Danish-Swedish feminist debater, online humans rights activist and editor of the Danish magazine Friktion. Holten graduated from the University of Copenhagen with a master's degree in literary science.
  
  Holten became famous in Denmark in 2014 when she took a stand against revenge porn. In 2011 Holten had naked pictures stolen from her and distributed over the internet without her consent. The harassment led her to becoming an activist for the right to privacy on the internet and a prominent voice in the Danish feminist debate. Holten contacted Danish photographer Cecilie Bødker to have new naked pictures taken of her, but this time with her consent. The project titled "Consent" was published in the Danish online m

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  Thomas Korsgaard

  "Hvis der skulle komme et menneske forbi" er Thomas Korsgaards debutroman.

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  Yahya Hassan

  Yahya Hassan was a Danish-Palestinian poet who has attracted attention and stirred debate about Islam's place in Denmark based on poetry he wrote which was critical of Islam.
  His parents came to Denmark in the 80s as refugees from Palestine. He grew up with his parents and four sibling in Gellerupparken in Aarhus, an area which has been described as an immigrant ghetto. He grew up in a religious environment but has since abandoned religion.
  At 13 he was transferred to an institution for children with problem behaviour due to difficulties adapting to school, and petty crime. He dropped out of school at thirteen.
  He developed a keen interest in reading, litterature, and began writing poetry.
  
  One professor of literature, Tue Nexo Andersen, descri

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  Isak Dinesen

  Pseudonym used by the Danish author Karen Blixen.
  
  Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Danish: [kʰɑːɑn ˈb̥leɡ̊sn̩]; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962), born Karen Christentze Dinesen, was a Danish author, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen, who wrote works in Danish, French and English. She also at times used the pen names Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
  Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, an account of her life while living in Kenya, and for one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into Academy Award-winning motion pictures. She is also noted for her Seven Gothic Tales, particularly in Denmark.
  
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  Tine Høeg

  Tine Høeg debuterede med digtromanen Nye rejsende, der udkom i januar 2017 og vandt BogForums Debutantpris samme år.
  
  Bogen har været månedsbog i Samlerens Bogklub og med i projektet KGL Dansk på Det Kongelige Teater.
  
  Tine Høeg har derudover bidraget til diverse tidsskrifter og antologier - senest Høst & Søn-udgivelserne Jeg vælger uden filter og SKAM - og skrevet et lille poesihæfte og et radiodrama.
  
  Hun er født i 1985, cand.mag. i dansk og filosofi og bor i København.

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  Olga Ravn

  Olga Sofia Ravn is a Danish poet and novelist. Initially she published poetry which was acclaimed by the critics, as was her first novel Celestine. She is also a translator and has worked as a literary critic for Politiken and several other Danish publications.

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  Ann Jäderlund

  Ann Jäderlund (born 1955) is a Swedish poet and playwright. She made her literary debut in 1985 with the poetry collection Vimpelstaden. Other collections are Snart går jag i sommaren ut from 1990 and I en cylinder i vattnet av vattengråt from 2006. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 2004.

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  Maren Uthaug

  Maren Uthaug (født 1972) er blogger, stribe-tegner og forfatter af halvt samisk, halvt norsk oprindelse.
  
  Uthaug vandt i 2013 Politikens tegneseriekonkurrence og har derfor siden haft en fast stribe i avisens kultursektion under overskriften Ting, jeg gjorde. Striben følger i minimalistisk stil tændstikkvinden Maren i hendes gøren og laden. Desuden har Uthaug siden 2009 haft bloggen Marens blog, hvor hun dagligt poster tekster, billeder og tegninger af, hvad hun går og laver.
  
  Og sådan blev det er Uthaugs debutroman fra 2013 om en ung pige, der tvinges væk fra sin samiske verden og i stedet skal vokse op i Sønderjylland. Hele livet føler hun sig fremmedgjort, og derfor tager hun som voksen tilbage til barndommens land for at finde sine rødder.
  
  R

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  Bjørn Rasmussen

  Bjørn Rasmussen (1983) er uddannet fra Dramatikeruddannelsen og Forfatterskolen. Han debuterede som dramatiker i 2004 med audioguide-dramaet Myg marcherer i sødt blod. Huden er det elastiske hylster der omgiver hele legemet er hans første bog.
  
  Kilde: Gyldendal

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  Naja Marie Aidt

  Naja Marie Aidt is a Danish poet and writer. She was born in Greenland, and spent some of her childhood there. She published her first book of poetry in 1991, and in 2008 she was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize.

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  Tove Ditlevsen

  Tove Ditlevsen var en dansk forfatter, som hentede inspiration i sit eget liv som kvinde. I sin digtning og som yndet brevkasseredaktør i Familie Journalen udfoldede hun en dyb psykologisk indsigt i moderne kvinders splittede liv. Hendes evne til at udtrykke sammensatte følelser i et enkelt og smukt sprog fik betydning for flere generationer af læsere.

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  Ágota Kristóf

  Ágota Kristóf was a Hungarian writer, who lived in Switzerland and wrote in French. Kristof received the European prize for French literature for The Notebook (1986). She won the 2001 Gottfried Keller Award in Switzerland and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2008.
  
  Kristof's first steps as a writer were in the realm of poetry and theater (John et Joe, Un rat qui passe), which is a facet of her works that did not have as great an impact as her trilogy. In 1986 Kristof’s first novel, The Notebook appeared. It was the beginning of a moving trilogy. The sequel titled The Proof came 2 years later. The third part was published in 1991 under the title The Third Lie. The most important themes of this trilogy are war and destructio

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  Hans Scherfig

  Hans Scherfig was a renowned Danish author and artist.
  
  His most famous works of literature include Det Forsømte Forår (Stolen Spring), Frydenholm, Idealister (Idealists), and Skorpionen (The Scorpion), the last of which was published in over 20 countries. He is also well-known for his distinctive Naivist lithographs which depict jungle and savanna scenes that owe something to Henri Rousseau, and various drawings and paintings with satirical, political, and biblical subject matter.
  
  Central to Scherfigs work was his life-long political engagement. Already in his early years he became a dedicated communist and remained so until his death in 1979.
  
  Because of this Scherfig was imprisoned by the Nazi German military occupation forces in Denmark duri

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  Tarjei Vesaas

  Tarjei Vesaas was a Norwegian poet and novelist. Written in Nynorsk, his work is characterized by simple, terse, and symbolic prose. His stories often cover simple rural people that undergo a severe psychological drama and who according to critics are described with immense psychological insight. Commonly dealing with themes such as death, guilt, angst, and other deep and intractable human emotions, the Norwegian natural landscape is a prevalent feature in his works. His debut was in 1923 with Children of Humans (Menneskebonn), but he had his breakthrough in 1934 with The Great Cycle (Det store spelet). His mastery of the nynorsk language, landsmål (see Norwegian language), has contributed to its acceptance as a medium of world class litera

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  Roland Paulsen

  Roland Paulsen (f. 1981) är författare och doktor i sociologi. 2010 gav han ut boken Arbetssamhället som ifrågasätter synen på arbete i relation till det minskade behovet av arbete i samband med den tekniska utvecklingen.

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  Chloe Aridjis

  Chloe Aridjis was born in New York and grew up in the Netherlands and Mexico City. After receiving a BA from Harvard, she went on to receive a PhD from Oxford University. A collection of essays on Magic and Poetry in Nineteenth-century France was released in 2005. Her first novel, Book of Clouds, followed in 2009, winning the Prix du Premier Roman Etranger in France.

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  Tor Ulven

  Tor Ulven (1953–1995) was a Norwegian poet. He is considered one of the major poets of the Norwegian post-war era, and he won several major literary prizes in Norwegian literature.
  
  His early works, consisting of traditional modernist verse poetry, were heavily influenced by André Breton and the surrealist movement. As the 1980s progressed he developed a more independent voice, both stylistically and thematically. The later part of his work consists mainly of prose. He committed suicide in 1995 in Oslo, the city where he was born.

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  Aimé Césaire

  Martinique-born poet, playwright, and politician Aimé Fernand Césaire contributed to the development of the concept of negritude; his primarily surrealist works include The Miracle Weapons (1946) and A Tempest (1969).
  
  A francophone author of African descent. His books of include Lost Body, with illustrations by Pablo Picasso, Aimé Césaire: The Collected Poetry, and Return to My Native Land. He is also the author of Discourse on Colonialism, a book of essays which has become a classic text of French political literature and helped establish the literary and ideological movement Negritude, a term Césaire defined as “the simple recognition of the fact that one is black, the acceptance of this fact and of our destiny as blacks, of our h

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  Aase Berg

  Poet, fiction writer, critic, translator, and one of the founding members of the Stockholm Surrealist Group.

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  Etel Adnan

  Etel Adnan was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1925. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, U.C. Berkeley, and at Harvard, and taught at Dominican College in San Rafael, California, from 1958–1972.
  
  In solidarity with the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962), Adnan began to resist the political implications of writing in French and became a painter. Then, through her participation in the movement against the Vietnam War (1959–1975), she began to write poetry and became, in her words, “an American poet.” In 1972, she returned to Beirut and worked as cultural editor for two daily newspapers—first for Al Safa, then for L’Orient le Jour. Her novel Sitt Marie-Rose, published in Paris in 1977, won the France-Pays Arabes award and has been translat

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  Maja Lee Langvad

  Maja Lee Langvad er født i 1980. Hun blev uddannet fra Forfatterskolen i 2003 og debuterede i 2006 med den konceptuelle tekstsamling Find Holger Danske. Hun er medredaktør på det nordiske litteraturtidsskrift Kritiker. Hun har oversat Spørgeskemaer af Max Frisch. I en årrække optrådte hun som en kritisk stemme i adoptionsdebatten i Danmark.
  
  Maja Lee Langvad har modtaget flere legater og priser bl.a. Statens Kunstfonds treårige arbejdslegat, Svend Dahlsgaards Mindelegat, Bodil og Jørgen Munch-Christensens Kulturlegat og Danske skønlitterære Forfatteres Hæderspris.
  
  Maja Lee Langvad har arbejdet sammen med en lang række kunstnere inden for videokunst, performance, teater, koreografi, film, musik og lydkunst.

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  Chantal Maillard

  Poeta y filósofa española de origen belga (Bruselas, 1951). Doctora en Filosofía y Profesora Titular de Estética y Teoría de las Artes, vivió largas temporadas en Benarés, India, en cuya Universidad se especializó en Filosofía y Religión India. Hasta el año 2000 impartió docencia en el Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad de Málaga, donde impulsó los estudios de Filosofía y Estética comparadas. Desde 1998, ha colaborado con críticas de filosofía, estética y pensamiento oriental en los Suplementos Culturales de los principales Diarios de la prensa española y sigue haciéndolo en El País. Es autora de numerosos ensayos, cuadernos y poemarios. Ha traducido y editado a Henri Michaux y colaborado con otras ediciones en la difusión del pens

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  Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

  Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (Chinese: 白萱华) is a contemporary poet. Winner of two American Book Awards, her work is often associated with the Language School, the poetry of the New York School, phenomenology, and visual art. She is married to the painter Richard Tuttle, with whom she has frequently collaborated.

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  Fleur Jaeggy

  Fleur Jaeggy is a Swiss author, who writes in Italian. The Times Literary Supplement named Proleterka as a Best Book of the Year upon its US publication, and her Sweet Days of Discipline won the Premio Bagutta and the Premio Speciale Rapallo. As of 2021, six of her books have been translated into English.

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  Unica Zürn

  Unica Zürn was a German author and painter. She is remembered for her works of anagram poetry, exhibitions of automatic drawing, and her photographic collaborations with Hans Bellmer.

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  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Gilbert Sorrentino was one of the founders (1956, together with Hubert Selby Jr.) and the editor (1956-1960) of the literary magazine Neon, the editor for Kulchur (1961-1963), and an editor at Grove Press (1965-1970). Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn (1964) and The Autobiography of Malcolm X are among his editorial projects. Later he took up positions at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, the University of Scranton and the New School for Social Research in New York and then was a professor of English at Stanford University (1982-1999). The novelists Jeffrey Eugenides and Nicole Krauss were among his students, and his son, Christopher Sorrentino, is the author of the novels Sound on Sound and Trance.
  
  Mulligan Stew is considered Sorrent

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  John Berryman

  John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry. He was the author of The Dream Songs, which are playful, witty, and morbid. Berryman committed suicide in 1972.
  
  A pamphlet entitled Poems was published in 1942 and his first proper book, The Dispossessed, appeared six years later. Of his youthful self he said, 'I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.' His first major work, in which he began to develop his own unique style of writing, was Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, which appeared in Partisan Review in 1953 and was publi

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  Hans Scherfig

  Hans Scherfig was a renowned Danish author and artist.
  
  His most famous works of literature include Det Forsømte Forår (Stolen Spring), Frydenholm, Idealister (Idealists), and Skorpionen (The Scorpion), the last of which was published in over 20 countries. He is also well-known for his distinctive Naivist lithographs which depict jungle and savanna scenes that owe something to Henri Rousseau, and various drawings and paintings with satirical, political, and biblical subject matter.
  
  Central to Scherfigs work was his life-long political engagement. Already in his early years he became a dedicated communist and remained so until his death in 1979.
  
  Because of this Scherfig was imprisoned by the Nazi German military occupation forces in Denmark duri

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  Halldis Moren Vesaas

  Halldis Moren Vesaas (1907-1995) voks opp i Trysil og debuterte 22 år gammal med diktsamlinga "Harpe og dolk". Ho og ektemannen, forfattaren Tarjei Vesaas, busette seg i Vinje i Telemark, og dei reiste mykje, i Norden og Europa for øvrig, og knytte verdfulle kontaktar med andre diktarar slik at heimen deira, Midtbø, vart litt av eit nordisk kultursentrum.
  
  Halldis Moren Vesaas kom med tre diktbøker før krigen, men dei mest kjende dikta står i samlingane "Tung tids tale" (1945), "Treet" (1947) og "I ein annan skog" (1955). Ho har òg gitt ut mange andre slags bøker - barnebøker, ein roman, noveller i "Så nært deg" (1987), og dessutan biografiske bøker om Sven Moren og Tarjei Vesaas, artiklar og essays og diktantologien "Vandre med vers" (1990).

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  Eavan Boland

  Born in Dublin in 1944, Eavan Boland studied in Ireland, London and New York. Her first book was published in 1967. She taught at Trinity College, University College Dublin, Bowdoin College, the University of Iowa, and Stanford University. A pioneering figure in Irish poetry, Boland's works include The Journey and other poems (1987), Night Feed (1994), The Lost Land (1998) and Code (2001). Her poems and essays appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Kenyon Review and American Poetry Review. She was a regular reviewer for the Irish Times. She was married to the novelist Kevin Casey.

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  Adam Zagajewski

  Adam Zagajewski was a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist. He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
  
  The Zagajeski family was expelled from Lwów by the Ukrainians to central Poland in 1945.
  In 1982 he emigrated to Paris, but in 2002 he returned to Poland, and now resides in Kraków.
  His poem "Try To Praise The Mutilated World", printed in The New Yorker, became famous after the 9/11 attacks.
  
  He is considered a leading poet of the Generation of '68, or Polish New Wave (Polish: Nowa fala), and one of Poland's most prominent contemporary poets.
  
  Source: wikipedia.com

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  Søren Ulrik Thomsen

  Søren Ulrik Thomsen was born in 1956 in Kalundborg. He grew up in Store Heddinge, Stevns, south of Copenhagen, where he went to school together with another Danish poet, Jens Fink-Jensen from 1968 to 1972. During his childhood he often heard readings of literature and sang evening songs. This early exposure to the rhythm and poetry of language influenced his later writing. In school he became familiar with the songs of B.S.Ingemann, a poet who has had significant influence on Thomsen's poetry.
  
  He moved with his family to Copenhagen at sixteen and enrolled in secondary school at Rysensteen and, after being expelled, at Det Frie Gymnasium, where he completed his upper secondary education, making him eligible for university studies. His encount

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  Arun Kolatkar

  Arun Balkrishna Kolatkar (1932–2004) is one of the most important and influential poets in the post Independence Indian poetry. He was born on 1 November 1932 at Kolhapur, Maharastra. He had his education as a fine artist from JJ School of Arts and he worked as an art director and graphic designer in many reputed advertising agencies like Lintas. He wrote in Marathi and English.
  
  His Marathi poetry collections include:
  
  * Arun Kolatkarcha Kavita (1977)
  * Chirimiri (2004)
  * Bhijki Vahi (2004)
  * Droan (2004)
  * Char Kavita
  
  His first collection of English poems was Jejuri named after the religious site in Maharashtra (1976) and winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1977. His other collections of English poetry are Kala Ghoda Poems

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  Danielle Collobert

  Born in Rostrenen in 1940, Danielle Collobert left Bretagne for Paris at the age of eighteen where she worked in an art gallery and self-published her first poems in a book entitled Chants des guerres (1961). Both of Collobert’s parents, and her aunt, who survived deportation to Ravensbrück, were members of the Résistance during World War II. Herself a supporter of Algerian independence, Collobert joined the FLN (the Algerian National Liberation Front), precipitating her exile in Italy, during which time she completed work on Meurtre, first published in 1964 by Éditions Gallimard with the unwavering support of Raymond Queneau. She worked for Révolution africaine, a short-lived journal created at the end of the Algerian war. Collobert’s exte

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  Hans Børli

  Hans Børli var en norsk forfatter og skogsarbeider. Børli er skogens dikter over alle i norsk lyrikk. Blant hans mest kjente dikt er «Der skulle vi ha vøri, Kal» og «Louis Armstrong». Børli skrev også fortellinger og romaner (Fra SNL).

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  Ann Jäderlund

  Ann Jäderlund (born 1955) is a Swedish poet and playwright. She made her literary debut in 1985 with the poetry collection Vimpelstaden. Other collections are Snart går jag i sommaren ut from 1990 and I en cylinder i vattnet av vattengråt from 2006. She was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 2004.

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  Rita Wong

  Rita Wong is the author of four books of poetry: monkeypuzzle (Press Gang, 1998), forage (Nightwood Editions, 2007), sybil unrest (Line Books, 2008, with Larissa Lai) and undercurrent (Nightwood Editions, 2015). forage was the winner of the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and Canada Reads Poetry 2011.
  
  Wong is an associate professor in the Critical and Cultural Studies department at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design on the unceded Coast Salish territories also known as Vancouver.

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  Rosabetty Muñoz

  Creció en su ciudad natal, Ancud, y dio los primeros pasos como poetisa en el grupo Chaicura, dirigido por el poeta Mario Contreras Vega. Es titulada de profesora de castellano de la Universidad Austral de Chile.
  
  Publicó su primer poemario, Canto de una oveja del rebaño, en 1981 siendo estudiante universitaria en Valdivia. También en esa ciudad escribirá la mayor parte de su segundo libro, En lugar de morir, que saldrá en 1987. El tercer poemario Hijos (1991) lo redactó, según cuenta, «tras un negro periodo [...], en el que creí haber secado el pozo de mi poesía».
  
  De acuerdo a la descripción que hace Iván Carrasco del discurso etnocultural en la poesía chilena, entre cuyos autores se encuentra Rosabetty Muñoz, en su producción poética se apre

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