Danish Literary Magazine Spring 2013(1)

5/19/2018 Danish Literary Magazine Spring 2013(1)

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DANISH LITERARY MAGAZINE IS PUBLISHED BYThe Danish Arts Councils Comittee for Literature

www.kunst.dk

EDITOR-IN-CHIEFAnnette Bach

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EDITORLars Sidenius

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TEXT & TRANSLATIONAll articles in this edition are written by Lotte Kirkeby Hansen, a journalist with an M.A. in literature.

The articles are translated by Barbara Haveland.

COVER ILLUSTRATIONHelle Vibeke Jensen (born 09.09.1960) is a Danish illustrator and designer who took a degree in fashion design

from the Danish Design School in 1988. Her work includes picture books, illustrated books, educational material,

posters, rugs and designs for both indoor and outdoor exhibitions. In 2004 she was awarded the Danish Ministry of

Cultures Illustrator Prize for the picture book HR HER STR!(LISTEN STARLING!), written by Louis Jensen.And in 2011 she received the Danish Arts Foundations three-year working scholarship. Helle Vibeke Jensen

employs collage techniques, drawings and photography and picks up ideas for her work on her travels

and in workshops held all over the world.

See www.hebiinu.com and hellevibekejensen.dk

THE MAIN AIM OF THE MAGAZINE IS TO INFORM FOREIGN

PUBLISHERS, LITERARY AGENTS AND TRANSLATORS ABOUT TRENDS

IN DANISH LITERATURE AND PUBLICISE SOURCES OF LITERATURE

FUNDING AVAILABLE FROM THE DANISH ARTS COUNCIL.

FOR DETAILS ABOUT THE WORK OF THE DANISH ARTS COUNCIL

PLEASE VISIT

www.danisharts.dk & www.kunst.dk


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CONTENTS

P. 4

NEWS FROM DENMARKP. 8

SREN AABYE KIERKEGAARDP. 12

BOOKS IN BRIEFP. 18

SUZANNE BRGGERP. 20

ERLING JEPSENP. 22

RECENTLY SOLDP. 30

MORTEN SNDERGAA RDP. 32

CLASSICS IN NEW GARBP.38

AWARDSP. 42

SUPPORT SCHEMESP.44

ORGANISATIONS


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NEWSDEN

D A N I S H L I T E R A R Y M A G A Z I N E

FICTION

Everyday dramas and families

particularly of the dysfunctional

variety feature largely in this

springs crop of new fiction. The

Danish family from the 1950s in

SUZANNE

BRGGERSnovel Til T(To T) cant so muchas manage to go for a picnic in thewoods or serve tea for Granma and

Grandpa when they come round,

and the roles of parents and children

are totally reversed in a book which

is as much a cultural critique as it is a

family drama (see also p. 18).

ERLINGJEPSEN

too tackles family secrets, repressed

feelings and parental ineptitude in

Min snderjyske farm(Out of Jutland),

the story of young Allan, who

breeds rabbits and struggles to come

to terms with his parentage not

least on the paternal side (see also p.

20). The family theme is also taken

lovingly in hand by

KATRINE MARIE

GULDAGERin Den ny tid(The New Age), the

third volume in her chronicle of

several generations of a family

from the Danish provincial town

of Kge. Guldagers trilogy began

with the novel Ulven(The Wolf) and

continued with Lille hjerte(Little

Heart) which was acclaimed by

one ecstatic critic as something

quite unique in modern Danish

literature.

DENNISGADE KOFOD

puts a twist on the classic kitchen

sink drama in his novel Genfrd

(Ghost) by taking his grieving central

character into the realms of magic

and the absurd: Frederik checks in

to a hotel a place with a strange

and mysterious air about it, fraught

with bewildering secrets and baffling

family relationships. Minna, the

woman in

DORTHENORSS

romantic (tragi-)comedy Minna

mangler et velokale (Minna Needs a

Rehearsal Room) also finds life pretty

bewildering. Here we are introduced

to a woman who is trying to get back

on her feet and reconcile herself to


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N E W S F R O M D E N M A R K

morass, while Heinrich finds it

harder to steer a course through

the Nazi system and still maintain

his reason and his honour. Both

of them become caught up in the

investigation of the murder of SS

General Felix Steiner, Manfreds

mentor; and Heinrich embarks on

a journey into the dark heart of

an impenetrable moral wasteland.

Simon Pasternak has previously,

together with his fellow author

Christian Dorph, written three

crime thrillers Om et jeblik i

himlen(In a Moment in Heaven),

Afgrundens rand(Edge of the Abyss)

andJeg er ikke her(Im Not Here).

CRIME FICTION

Although malicious tongues wouldhave it that the crime wave is starting

to subside, there is no lack of new

crime novels on the Danish market.

FROMARK

the things she feels are missing in

her life such as a rehearsal room in

which to compose her paper sonatas

in peace, a child (but her boyfriend

just broke up with her) and, generally

speaking, a reason for living. Poet

NIELSFRANK

makes his fictional debut with Nellies

bog (Nellies Book), an account

of a family visit to the United

States in which he describes the

things his fictional character Nellie

experiences along the way in a

mixture of modern and antiquated

language, of Danish, American and

dialect.

SVEND AAGEMADSEN

experiments with style and form in

his latest novel Pigen i cementblanderen

(The Girl in the Cement Mixer), in

which a small town in the Danish

provinces provides the setting for a

mysterious suicide, a murky family

history and a succession of crimes,

some past, some present and some

invented elements used in these

stories to explore the question of

when a crime is really a crime.

There is no shortage of crimes of a

clearer, more tangible sort in

SIMONPASTERNAKS

Ddszoner(Death Zones), set in

White Russia in July 1943, at the

time of the German massacre

of civilians there. Two boyhoodfriends, Manfred and Heinrich,

are serving with the German army.

Manfred thrives in the moral


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STEFFEN

JACOBSENTrof(Trophy), which follows thefortunes of Elizabeth Caspersen, the

wealthy Danish heiress to a worldwide

industrial empire. In her late fathers

safe Elizabeth finds a DVD of a

cynical, well-organised manhunt

which culminates in the death of a

young man. She hires an ex-soldier to

identify both victim and executioner,

only for him also to become embroiledin a manhunt one in which he ends

up as the prey. In the new novel from

ROBERT ZOLACHRISTENSEN

it is the central character, scientist

Theis, whose is dispatched on a

hunt. Is i blodet(Ice in the Blood) is ascientific crime novel which depicts

the in-fighting between researchers in

Greenland and Alaska, where Theis

is faced with the mass death of the

entire crew of a Greenland research

and a missing girlfriend whom he

absolutely has to find. Newcomer

JAKOBMELANDER

on the other hand, stays within the

bounds of Denmark in jesten(The

House that Jack Built). Melander

achieved the distinction of having

this, his first novel, sold to several

countries even before it appeared

in Denmark. jestenis a critically

acclaimed crime novel from the

streets of Copenhagen, where amacabre murder shocks the whole

city. This killing, later to become

known as the Sandman case, proves

to be linked to events that took place

during the Second World War. jesten

is the first volume in a projected

series featuring Detective-SergeantLars Winkler (see also Recently Sold).

Spring also sees the appearance of

new titles on the historical crime

front, including two new titles from

MARTINJENSEN

namely volumes four and five inhis series on Winston, Halfdan and

Alfilda, snoops and henchmen to

King Canute. These latest two books

in Jensens series set in England

during Viking times are entitled Den

tredje mnt(The Third Coin) and

Svrdets bid(Sword Edge). See also

Books in Brief for more information

on new Danish crime fiction.

CHILDRENS BOOKS

A number of Denmarks best known

and most respected writers of adult

fiction have also turned their hands to

childrens books, among them

KATRINE MARIEGULDAGER

who has just published two new

books in her series on Little Miss Fine

Frken Fine skal til fdselsdag (Little

Miss Fine Goes to a Birthday Party)

and Frken Fine har vret p ferie(Little

Miss Fines Holiday). Both of these

concern her relationship with her

best friend Bitte, which is not always

quite the way Little Miss Fine wouldlike it to be. These books are ideal for

reading aloud or as early readers.

LEIF

DAVIDSEN

has won a host of prizes for his

thrillers and since 1984, when his

first novel appeared, his books

have been translated into fifteen

languages. Now comes a new thriller

from Davidsens hand, Patriarkens

hndelige dd(The Accidental Death

of the Patriarch). The novel is set in

Russia, in Putins own, very unique,

version of a democracy. In Moscowtwo deaths occur on the same day:

the Patriarch of all Russia passes

away peacefully in his sleep and

shortly afterwards a Dane, Gabriel

Lassen, is beaten to death in a

back court. On the surface there

is no connection between these

two deaths but back in Denmark

Gabriels twin brother comes by

information that seems to point the

other way. The action in

MORTEN

HESSELDAHLS

latest crime novel, his fourth, also

takes place in a number of different

countries. In En tid til at d(A Time

to Die) a disgraced Danish army

chaplain comes home from the warin Afghanistan to a half empty bed-

sit, an uncertain future and, not least,

to his brother, who has his life all

mapped out. He also has distinctly

shady plans, though, of intervening

in a crisis in the Central African

country of Abu Sidre. The former

chaplain becomes caught up in this

game of intrigue, much against his

will, when his brother disappears

and a blonde assassin shows up ona remote Danish island. There is a

fourth novel too from


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N E W S F R O M D E N M A R K

JENS CHRISTIAN

GRNDAHL

has also written a childrens book,

his very first, entitled Med bedstemor

i tidens labyrinth(Travelling with

Granny through the Maze of Time)

(see also Books in Brief), while

IDA JESSEN &

HANNE BARTHOLINcontinues their successfulcollaboration with the fourth book

in their picture-book series for the

very young about Carl the elephant

Da Carl havde det sjovt (When Carl

Had Fun). In the Carl books Jessen

and Bartholin present stories of

little everyday dramas as they are

experienced by the young readers

themselves. In this latest title Carlis home alone with his Dad. They

are going to have a lovely day

together, just the two of them, but

first Dad has to do some work, read

the paper, talk on the phone and do

the shopping ... Ubiquitous, award-

winning author

JAKOB

MARTIN STRID

(see also Literary prizes in this issue)

has also taken elephants as his subject,

in his picture books about Mimbo

Jimbo. In the latest title in this series Mimbo Jumbo i Norge(Mimbo Jimbo in

Norway) the little blue elephant and

his friend Mimbo Jumbo the hippo,

go to visit a very nice little girl called

Nina, who lives in Norway.

RENE TOFTSIMONSEN

has previously written books for older

children, including the popular Karla

series. Just out from her is a new book

for the very small, Tiberius Tudefjs

laver muskler(Tiberius Cry-baby

Muscle-builder) in which Tiberius

runs into trouble at school when some

of the big boys threaten to beat him

up. But how is he to defend himself

when he doesnt have any muscles?

Among this springs offerings forolder readers we find PSSST!, a

graphic novel for girls in their tweens

which looks at the subject of identity

from various angles: Who am I?

Why am I the way I am? What do

I want to do with my life? In twelve

independent chapters

ANNETTE HERZOG

& KATRINE CLANTE

introduce the reader to twelve-year-old

Viola and her thoughts and ideas on

life, death, friends, family, loneliness,

personal appearance and popularity.In the Young Adult category there is a

stark and powerful first novel from

CONRADFIELDS

In Minusmand(Minus Man) he tells

the story of two friends, Tobias and

Ali who find themselves one day onopposite sides in a violent conflict.

In MinusmandFields has written a

tale about identity, friendship and

love and about an underclass that

is seldom addressed in fiction. In

Komats(Coma Chick), a novel for

older teenagers,

RONNIEANDERSEN

also gets to grips with the grimmer

side of life. Fourteen-year-old Maj

leads a nomadic existence with her

mother, who has a serious drink

problem. Maj is so sick and tired

of her life that when she falls into

ice-cold water she cannot find the

strength to fight for it and ends up

in a coma.

Suzanne Brggeris published by Gyldendal. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency. Erling Jepsenis published by Gyldendal. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Leonhardt& Hier Literary Agency. Katrine Marie Guldageris published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Lindhardt og Ringhof. Dennis Gade Kofodis publishedby Rosinante. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency. Dorthe Nors is published by Rosinante. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency. Niels Frankis published by Gyldendal. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency. Svend Aage Madsen is published by Gyldendal. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal GroupAgency. Simon Pasternakis published by Gyldendal. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency. Leif Davidsenis published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. FOREIGNRIGHTS: Leonhardt & Hier Literary Agency. Morten Hesseldahl is published by Modtryk. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Leonhardt & Hier Literary Agency. SteffenJakobsenis published by PeoplesPress. FOREIGN RIGHTS: PeoplesPress. Robert Zola Christensen is published by Gyldendal. FOREIGN RIGHTS: GyldendalGroup Agency.Jakob Melanderis published by Rosinante. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency. Martin Jensenis published by Klim, FOREIGN RIGHTS:Klim. Katrine Marie Guldager(childrens books) is published by Carlsen. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Lindhardt og Ringhof. Jens Christian Grndahl(childrens books) ispublished by Carlsen. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Lindhardt og Ringhof. Ida Jessen & Hanne Bartholinare published by Hst & Sn. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal GroupAgency. Rene Toft Simonsenis published by Politikens Forlag. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Politikens Forlag. Jakob Martin Strid is published by Gyldendal. FOREIGNRIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency.Annette Herzog & Katrine Clanteare published by Hst & Sn. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency. Conrad Fieldsispublished by Gyldendal. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency. Ronnie Andersenis published by Hst & Sn. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency.


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May 5th 2013 is the 200th anniversary of thebirth of Danish theologian, philosopher andwriter Sren Aabye Kierkegaard. The bicentennialwill be celebrated all over the world, not least inDenmark where Siri Hustvedt, Slavoj iek and

Gianni Vattimo will be among the speakers at amajor international conference.

BEINGHUMAN


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S R E N A A B Y E K I E R K E G A A R D

The Great thing is not to be Thisor That; but to be oneself, and this

any Man can do, if he so wishesSren Kierkegaard, Enten-Eller(Either-Or)

What is a human being? And how does one

become oneself? These are just a couple of

the existential philosophical questions that

occupied Sren Kierkegaard. According to

him, to become who we are we have to actively

do something. The responsibility rests with us.

And the work of becoming the person we want

to be should be done with passion. Kierkegaard

tries to get us to think about who we are. Hetries to show us what to do if we dont like the

individual we perceive, to save us from simply

adopting the image of the person others think

we should be.

But this is a responsibility from which we

tend to flee. Then as now. And it is, among

other things, his way of wrestling with these

problems that makes Sren Kierkegaard such

a classic and eternally relevant thinker. In his

writings he homes in on points that never ceaseto be topical, as can be seen from the interest in

his work, which may not have had such a huge

impact in his own day, but which has gradually

built up a strong and stable following.

Sren Kierkegaards philosophy of existence,

which places the individual at the centre of

things, has been the inspiration for much of

modern European existentialist thinking for

Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, Adorno, Barth and

Bultmann. Kierkegaard himself was influencedby the German idealists Kant, Hegel and

Schopenhauer as well as by Plato, Socrates

and the whole of the ancient school of idealism.

Sren Aabye Kierkegaard died on November

11th1855. His was a short life, but one in which

he managed to produce an impressive number

of works, including Enten-Eller (Either-Or)

(1843), Philosophiske Smuler(Philisophical

Fragments) (1844), Begrebet Angest(The Concept

of Anxiety) (1844), Kjerlighedens Gjerninger

(Works of Love) (1847) and Sygdommen til

Dden(The Sickness unto Death) (1849). Since1994 Gads Forlag has been working with the

Danish Sren Kierkegaard Research Centre

on an edition of his collected works. This has

now been completed all fifty-five volumes

of it and the finished work will be presented

to the University of Copenhagen as part of

the bicentennial celebrations. Elsewhere in

the world fresh shoots are also springing from

the Kierkegaardian loam, with translations

under way in the following languages: English,

French, Dutch, Italian, Chinese, Korean,Latvian, Portugese, Rumanian, Spanish, Czech,

German and Hungarian. The English, French

and German projects are concentrating on the

translation of all of Kierkegaards journals,

notebooks and miscellaneous papers; the

Spanish project is devoted to his published

works; elsewhere it is a matter of translations of

individual works.

Read more about the Danish Sren Kierkegaard ResearchCentre which also holds translation seminars at www.skc.dk, and about the national and international celebrationof the Kierkegaard bicentennial at www.sk2013.ku.dk


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I came by Regine Olsens letters only through

a stroke of pure luck. No one, publically or

in academic circles, knew they existed. But

after a talk I had given on Sren Kierkegaardan elderly couple came up to me and asked if

I was also interested in his one-time fiance,

Regine, because they had a bundle of letters

belonging to her correspondence between her

and her sister Cornelia during the years 1855

to 1860, when Regine was living in the Danish

West Indies with her husband.

It is hard to underestimate exactly how

much Regine meant to Kierkegaard. Her

significance to his life and his work is fargreater than first imagined. He dedicates

his entire body of work to his father and to

Regine, the person who really brings out the

writer in him and the great inspiration for an

untold number of his stories about love - both

consummated and unconsummated. And it

was Regine, not least, who gave him insight

into the nature of erotic love.

The bond between Kierkegaard and Regine

was very close. Their fascinating love story

is proof that Platonic love can be every bit as

intense as sexual love. They were never able

to break free of one another, even though they

were only officially engaged for a year. Regine

remains an engima in his life, one to which he

continually returns, analyzing and interpreting

it. He breaks off the engagement in 1841 and

for the next fourteen years, until she leaves

for the Danish West Indies, they do not speak.

Although they meet often. They have their

regular routes on which their paths wordlessly

cross. On the day of her departure Regine seeks

out Kierkegaard in the street and blesses him:

a moving scene in the heart of Copenhagen, in

which the man of many words is speechless, inwhich the woman takes the initiative, in which

the non-theologian blesses the theologian.

Little attention is paid by scholars to Regine

after the point when Kierkegaard breaks off

their engagement, and hardly any at all from

the time of his death, but she herself does not

die until 1904, so she lives to see the modern

world. Her letters have afforded me the unique

opportunity to say something about her as an

independent woman. What sort of person isshe? What is going on in her mind? It surprised

me to find her so open in her letters, although

she had to choose her words very carefully since

letters would have been passed round the whole

family back then. She has often been presented

as a pretty little china doll, a mere ornament, but

her letters show her to be a reflective, amusing

individual with her own range of emotions, her

own dreams, opinions and riddles.

Regines gde(The Mystery of Regine) is a

long meditation on the nature of love. On

loving someone who is dead and gone, on

being limited in the ways one can express

ones love. There is a passion and a spirit

in these letters that has moved me; a search

for an explanation, for answers to existential

relationships, to ones relationship with

oneself, with God, with death and with this

man Kierkegaard. In Regines letters we are

presented with an individual of great sensibility

and a refreshing streak of self-irony.

Joakim Garff, (born 1960), scholar and writer, has previously written the critically acclaimed biography ofSren Kierkegaard, SAK, which has been translated into a number of languages. See also Books in Brief.

A MEDITATIO

THE NATUR E


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With the publication of his book Regines gde(The Mystery of Regine) on Sren Kierkegaards

erstwhile fiance, Regine Olsen, Joakim Garff cannow call himself the worlds only reginologist

N ON

OF LOVE


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A blackbird trills a liquid song and all the living creatures

in the world fall into a trance. This is the starting point

for the latest book from Peter Adolphsen, in which every

human being and every animal is so it seems caught

in the midst of whatever move they were making when

the world came to a halt. Each one repeats this same

action again and again, as if in a loop, all except Mark. He

is one of the survivors who does not loop and can do as

he pleases: indulge himself, both materially and sexually.But he gradually grows bored with this and as time

goes on he becomes more and more interested in what

actually happened when the blackbird trilled its song -

and in finding other survivors. Inr 9 efter Loopet(Year 9

After the Loop) Peter Adolphsen(born 1972) has writtenan off-beat, ultra-modern Robinsonade garnished with

women, weapons and a sprinkling of quantum physics.

Adolphsen made his literary debut in 1996 with the

critically acclaimed Sm historier(Small Stories) and

followed this up in 2000 with Sm historier 2(SmallStories 2) and in 2007 with En million historier (A Million

Stories). He has also published two novels, Brummstein

(2003) and Machine(2006).

A body of work that speaks of remarkable growth and

development. So wrote Weekendavisens reviewer

in 2009 of Julia Butschkows novelApropos Opa, and

prophesied a sure and solid place for Butschkow on the

literary heights. In her latest work,Aber dabei, she picks

up the threads of her breakthrough novel in an account

of mental illness and a fragile artistic temperament

narrated by the various people associated with a senior

consultant on a psychiatric unit in Copenhagen. Theconsultant cares for the sick while his wife stays home

and dreams of writing. But she is short on subject

matter. And so she is forever asking her husband about

his patients e.g. about the lawyer who talks nonstop

and propositions both staff and fellow patients. JuliaButschkow(born 1978) published her first work,the poetry collection Lykkekomplex(The Happiness

Complex), in 1997, but her real breakthrough came in

2009 with the novelApropos Opa, which was nominated

for the Danmarks Radio Fiction Prize. More recently shehas published the collection of short stories Der er ingen

bjerge i Danmark(There Are No Mountains in Denmark)

(2011).

r 9 efter Loopet (Year 9 After the Loop),Samleren 2013, 96 pp.PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,Norway, Serbia, Spain, Swed en, United Kingdom, United States.FOREIGN RIGHTS: Leonhardt & Hier Literary Agency, Anneli Hier,[email protected]

Aber Dabei, Samleren 2013, 170 pp.PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: The Netherlands, Norway.FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldend al Group Agency, Sofie Voller,[email protected]

PETER ADOLPHSEN

A MODERN

ROBINSONADE

JULIA BUTSCHKOW

MULTI-NARRATIVE NOVEL ABOUT

THE ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT


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B O O K S I N B RI E F

According to the French newspaper Le MondeJens

Christian Grndahl is one of the greatest living Danish

writers. Grndahls works including the novels Lucca

(1998), Et andet lys(An Altered Light) (2002) and Fr vi

siger farvel(Before We say Goodbye) (2012) - have been

published in more than thirty countries. Now comes a

new book from Jens Christian Grndahl, a collection of

essays on art and literature where he considers the links

between life and work, between tradition and modernity,referring in the process to Saul Bellow, Marcel Proust,

Odysseus, Patrick Modiano and Wim Wenders. JensChristian Grndahl(born 1959) published his first bookin 1985. In the years since then he has produced almost

a score of titles within various genres. In 2013 he will

be venturing into what is, for him, totally new territory

when he makes his debut as a childrens writer with a

read-aloud book for children of early primary school

age. In Med bedstemor i tidens labyrint (Travelling with

Granny through the Maze of Time) we are introduced toNina, a little girl who travels back through time with her

grandmother to Copenhagen at the time of the Second

World War. Illustrated by Lars Gabel.

A superb spring read, A fascinating, beautifully written

book. So said the press of Morten Brasks fictional

biography of one of the worlds greatest geniuses,

William Sidis perfekte liv (The Perfect Life of William

Sidi), published in 2011. Now comes a new novel from

Brasks hand, this time a realistic contemporary novel

about the beginnings of love and its end, about living with

both intense happiness and deep sorrow and about

making a decision, leaving the world behind and startingafresh. That is what the first-person narrator of Brasks

En pige og en dreng (A Girl And A Boy) is destined to do

when he loses his young twins after years of loving and

battling with his darling Maya. He does not share her

burning desire to have children and build a family and

this eventually casts a shadow over their love for one

another until the day when the children, a boy and a girl,

are born. Morten Brask(born 1970) has written sevenbooks, including three works of fiction. He made his

debut as a writer of fiction in 2007 with the novel Havet iTheresienstadt (The Sea in Theresienstadt) (2007) which

was nominated for the Prix du Roman Fnac in 2011.

JENS CHRISTIAN GRNDAHL MORTEN BRASK

ESSAYS FROM THE

AUTHOR OF LUCCA

LOVE AND

DESTINY

Den sibiriske mne (The Siberian Moon), Lindhardt og Ringhof 2013, 160 pp.PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: More than thirty countries. FOREIGN RIGHTS:Roger, Coleridge & White Literary Agency, London. [email protected] bedstemor i tidens labyrint (Travelling with Granny Through the Mazeof Time), Carlsen 2013, 112 pp. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Lindhardt og Ringhof,Susanne Gribfeldt, [email protected]

En pige og en dreng (A Girl And A Boy), Politikens Forlag 2013, 225 pp.PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: France, Greece, Italy.FOREIGN RIGHTS: Lars Ringhof Agency, Esthi Kunz, [email protected]

P O L I T I K E N S F O R L A G

R O M A N

B r a s kM o r t e n

En pige ogen dreng


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2013 sees the 200th anniversary of the birth of

the Danish philosopher and writer Sren Aabye

Kierkegaard. Several books are being published

to mark the bicentennial (see also p. 8-11 in this

magazine). Joakim Garff, scholar and author of amajor Kierkegaard biography from 2000, SAK Sren

Aaby Kierkegaard. En biografi (SAK Sren Aabye

Kierkegaard. A Biography) has just published a book

about Regine Olsen, the woman to whom Kierkegaardwas at one time engaged. Garff has come into

possession of over a hundred hitherto unknown letters

written by Regine during her years in the West Indies

with her husband Johan Frederik Schlegel when he

was Governor-General out there. These letters, which

form the basis for his new book, Regines gde(The

Mystery of Regine), show her to be a woman of flesh

JOAKIM GARFF STIG DALAGER OSCAR K.

Regines gde(The Mystery of Regine),Gads Forlag 2013, 500 pp. PREVIOUS TITLESSOLD TO: Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands,Norway, Poland, Sweden, United States.FOREIGN RIGHTS: Leonhardt & Hier LiteraryAgency, Anneli Hier, [email protected]

jeblikkets evighed(The Eternity of theMoment), Lindhardt og Ringhof 2013, 208 pp.PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: France, Germany,Italy, Sweden, United Kingdom. FOREIGN RIGHTS:Lindhardt og Ringhof, Susanne Gribfeldt,[email protected]

Kbenhavnerfortolkningen(The Copenhagener Interpretation),Jensen & Dalgaard 2013, 104 pp. PREVIOUSTITLES SOLD TO: Canada, Ireland, Norway,Russia, Sweden. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Jensen &Dalgaard, [email protected]

Historien om

Kierkegaards forlovede

og Schlegels hustru

JOAKIM GARFF

and blood, opinions and desires, and shed fresh light

on one of the most puzzling love affairs in Danish

history.

In his fictional biography of Sren Kierkegaard,

Stig Dalagerpaints an existential, psychologicalpicture of the world-renowned philosopher on his

deathbed, looking back on his life and on those

people who have touched it, while Oscar K. (see also

p. 32-37 in this magazine) presents his own uniqueand utterly subjective view of Sren Kierkegaards

life in an illustrated novel which revolves around the

central themes of death and sex, mother and father

fixations, normality and absurdity, and in which the

Danish philosopher is brought into the present by

a young female quantum physicist. Illustrated by

Rasmus Svarre.

3 X

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Jan Sonnergaard laid down several rules for himself

when writing his latest book. One was that he had to stay

for at least three months in each of the places in which

his stories were set and finish them on location. Another

was that he had to be completely familiar with every spot

mentioned in the stories, from the seediest brothel to the

most expensive Michelin-starred restaurant. Out of this

has come a book that deals, first and foremost with love,

and not just with romance and being in love, but withjealousy and violence, charity and altruism, infidelity

and betrayal. Jan Sonnergaard(born 1963) madehis major breakthrough in 1997 with the short story

collection Radiator, which won him the status of leading

spokesman for the new raw Nineties realism. He went

on to complete a trilogy of short story collections with

Sidste sndag i oktober (Last Sunday in October) (2000)

andJeg er stadig bange for Caspar Michael Petersen

(Im Still Afraid of Caspar Michael Petersen) (2003). In

2009 Jan Sonnergaard published his first novel, Omatomkrigens betydning for Vilhelm Funks ungdom (On the

Significance of Nuclear War on Vilhelm Funks Youth).

Otte opbyggelige fortllinger om krlighed og mad og fremmede byer(Eight Edifying Stories of Love, and Food and Foreign Cities) , Gyldendal2013, 512 pp. PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: Germany, Hungary, Iceland, theNetherlands, Serbia. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Leonhardt & Hier Literary Agency,Monica Gram, [email protected]

JAN SONNERGAARD


When and why did we become afraid of aggression? An

excellent, and very big question, and one which Jesper

Juul, author of Dit kompetente barn(Your Competent

Child), asks himself in his new bookAggression. Et nyt

og farligt tabu? (Aggression. A New and Dangerous

Taboo?). Juul focuses specifically on pre-school children

and school children, an alarming number of whom are

being sent from nurseries and schools to all manner of

therapists simply for expressing anger or frustration.And yet no research to speak of is being conducted

into the question of aggression. It is our own personal

perception of what constitutes over-aggressive and

hence unacceptable - behaviour that is changing; a

development which, according to long-time family

therapist Jesper Juul, does great damage, bothpsychologically and socially, to our children. Because,

if we do not teach them to relate to and recognise their

own aggressive tendencies and differentiate between

the constructive and the destructive sorts while they arestill young, they will be even more aggressive and self-

destructive in their teens.

Aggression. Et nyt og farlig tabu?(Aggression. A New and DangerousTaboo?), Lindhardt og Ringhof 2013, 175 pp. PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO:Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,Iceland, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Slovenia,Spain, Sweden, United States. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Leonhardt & HierLiterary Agency, Monica Gram, [email protected]

JESPER JUUL

Jesper Juul

Aggression

Warum sie fr uns undunsere Kinder notwendig ist

S.Fischer

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LOVE FIRST

AND FOREMOST

FORBIDDEN

AGGRESSION


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SUSANNE STAUN

Helt til grnsen(To The Limit), Gyldendal 2013, 314 pp.PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy,the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal GroupAgency, Sofie Voller, [email protected]


Its good to see new titles this spring from a number

of Danish crime writers, all adding to their respective

series with style and assurance. Here we have, for

example, Lene Kaaberbl, presenting the secondvolume of her projected trilogy on the Cadaver Doctor,

entitled Det levende kd(Living Flesh). In a backyard

in the small French provincial town of Varbourg a

grisly discovery is made: the badly mutilated body of

a young Italian prostitute. But Madeleine Karno, thecadaver doctors assistant, does not buy the yellow

presss conjectures that a new Jack the Ripper is

at work. She does not believe that the mutilation of

LENE KAABERBL

DANISH CRIME SERIES

Det levende kd(Living Flesh), Modtryk 2013, 300 pp.PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: More than twenty countries.The Kadaverdoktoren(Cadaver Doctor) titles have so far been sold to Italy,Norway, Spain, United States. FOREIGN RIGHTS: Lars Ringhof Agency,Esthi Kunz, [email protected]

the victim was entirely random with the greatest

precision someone has removed the young womans

womb and the unborn baby she had been carrying.

Susanne Staun, on the other hand, concerns herselfwith a more modern, but no less grim world in the third

volume in her series on forensic pathologist Maria

Krause whose friend and colleague, Little John, has

just hung himself. Or did he? Was it an accident? Or

murder? Or suicide? The answer is to be found in Helttil grnsen(To The Limit), the sequel to Dderummet

(The Death Room) (2010) which won the Harald

Mogensen Prize for best crime novel of the year and


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ELSEBETH EGHOLM

Eget ansvar (At Your Own Risk), Politikens Forlag 2013, 432 pp.PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, NewZealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, United Kingdom.FOREIGN RIGHTS: Lars Ringhof Agency, Esthi Kunz, [email protected]

P O L I T I K E N S F O R L A G

Hilsen fra Rexville(Greetings From Rexville) (2011).

There is a new title, too, from Jussi Adler-Olsen, whohas reached volume five of his series on Department

Q and Detective Inspector Carl Mrck. Marco Effekten

(The Marco Effect) follows the fortunes of Marco, a

young boy led into a life of crime at an early age by his

Uncle Zola, a man regarded in many circles as highly

undesirable. As Department Q is drawn deeper and

deeper into the investigation of Zola, Carl Mrck findshimself caught up in a web of crime and corruption

that stretches all the way from the Danish Ministry

of Justice to Africa. Eget ansvar(At Your Own Risk) is

the title of Elsebeth Egholms seventh crime novelfeaturing journalist Dicte. This time, however, Dicte

is not working alone. She is helped by the central

character of Egholms last two thrillers, De tre hundes

nat (Three Dog Night) (2011) and De dde sjles nat

(Dead Souls), namely Peter Boultrup, the son whom

Dictes Jehovas Witness parents forced her to give

up for adoption when he was born. The relationship

between these two has never been easy, but whenDictes daughter Rose Peters half-sister is

kidnapped, they both set out to find her, each working

from their own angle.

JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN

Marco Effekten(The Marco Effect), Politikens Forlag 2012, 505 pp.PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: More than thirty countries.FOREIGN RIGHTS: Politikens Forlag, Nya Guldberg, [email protected]

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FAMILYDRAMA

ANDCULTURAL

CRITIQUE


The adults cant push themselves

to do anything, neither to get

themselves out of the house nor to

find enough tea-cups and dont

even talk about the tea, which theyneed to go out and buy because they

dont have any. And when are they

supposed to find the time to commit

suicide (mother) or go off to Asia

and save the world (stepfather)? The

familys three children stand in the

wings, observing the parents whom

they are far too young to look after,

although they do their very best to,

and so nothing happens. They neverdo go on that picnic, or make that tea.

These two little, insignificant

but very concrete incidents take

place one summer in 1958, and in

Suzanne Brggers hands they are

developed into an associative train

of thought which in turn evolves

into a fable, one that puts the whole

ghastly set-up at a humorous,

allegorical distance. Because themembers of this family are all

named after characters from the

tales of Winnie-the-Pooh although

A picnic on a warmsummer day. A set of

grandparents coming

for tea. To most peoplethese might seem likepretty straightforwardsituations. But not forthe family in SuzanneBrggers latest bookTil T (To T).


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SUZANNE BRGGER

Til T (To T),Gyldendal 2013, 207 pp.PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: Finland, France,Germany, Hungary, Japan, Latvia, theNetherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Turkey,United Kingdom. FOREIGN RIGHTS: GyldendalGroup Agency, Sofie Voller,[email protected]

S U Z A N N E B R G G E R

If Tigger wasnt so worried about Kangas instability hewould be able to see the chaos as an adequate response to the

family as a stage for play-acting. Nowhere in the world can you

make believe as much as you can in a family. A place of work?You can resign. A friendship? You can end it. Neighbours?

You can move. But in a family youre forced to be hypocritical,otherwise all hell will break loose. And a child cant be the one

to drop the bomb and be responsible for the divorce, failure,homelessness and all the other mess that this brings in its wake.At this dramatic level the family is a fantasy in which everyone

invests. If one member of the cast were suddenly to stop actingtheir part or stop applauding, the illusion would collapse andthe family be ruined for all the others. And yet none of them

is aware that they are taking part in a joint performance, onethat is only apparent to outsiders. Every family has an in-

built resistance to knowing what is actually going on: complexstrategies, designed to ensure that everyone remains equally

oblivious of the fact that they are all in the dark.

this doesnt change the fact that

they are all at loggerheads, their

relationships with one another

coloured by a climate of secrecy

and repression; or that their familyis teetering on the brink of the

precipice and none of them is

capable of handling the freedom

that goes hand in hand with modern

family life - in which no one seems

able to agree on anything.

Suzanne Brgger(born 1944) cancelebrate forty years as a writer in

2013. She published her first book,Fri os fra krligheden(Deliver Us

From Love), in 1973 and she has

been a distinctive voice in Danish

literature and debate ever since,

not least thanks to works such as

Krlighedens veje & vildveje(Loves

Highways and Byways) (1975) and

Crme Fraiche(1978), but also tomore than twenty-five other titles

spanning a wide range of genres

and including the family chronicle

Jadekatten(The Jade Cat) (1997)

and, most recently, the essayJeg

har set den gamle verden forsvinde

hvor er mine renringe?(I Have

Seen the Old World Vanish Where

Are My Earrings?) (2010).

Suzanne Brggers writingwalks the line between fiction

and reality, between novel, essay

and memoir. Brgger herself calls

Til T(To T) her fictional debut, her

jade kitten, reverting as it does so

squarely to first principles, picking

up a thread from the family theme

ofJadekatten, thus picking up alsofrom where she started: with a

protest against the stage-managed

sort of love that Suzanne Brgger

has described and attacked from

countless angles in her many works.

Extract from Til T(To T)


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The people of Southern Jutland, and especiallythose living to the west of Gram had a special sense

of the transience of this world and were forever

reminding one another of that li fe was no joke.When they raised their glasses in the local pub,

for example, they would say: Cheers, while werefriends. Because you never knew when somebodymight say the wrong thing remember that fight

last Saturday night? When fortune smiled onthem, whether they had had a win on the pools or

received a long awaited inheritance, they wouldsay: Aye, well, life could be worse. But even thiswas said with a pensive note in the voice and a

face that betrayed no hint of happiness. There couldeven be a certain anxiety and wistfulness bound upwith this recognition of the beauty of life, becauseno one knew how long such a thing might last. Or

whether one deserved it.

Because there is nothing exotic or

decadent about Allans youth and

childhood in the Danish provinces

in the 1960s. His family is about

as dysfunctional as it can possibly

be, skeletons tumble out of every

closet if you so much as brush

against them.

Why does no one want to have

anything to do with his father? Why

doesnt his sister live at home?

Why does his mother put up with it

all? These questions run through

Allans mind as he sees to himself

and his rabbits; as he grows and

enters puberty and as he dreams

of being far, far away, from Gramby

Bakke and his family.

You can believe whatever you

want to believe, Allan tells himself

and attempts to escape into a

bubble of dreams and fiction. But he

is forced to recognise that somehow

he has to come to terms with hisparents:

I had to face the fact that my

Dad was my real Dad. All things

considered it could have been a

lot worse. In the rabbit world there

were males and females that ate

their own young. You shouldnt ever

breed from those, folk said, there

was something wrong with their

genes. At least I hadnt been eaten,nor had my brothers and sisters.

Min Snderjyske Farm (Out of

Allan Jensen is thirteenyears old. He has a farmin Jutland, at the footof Gramby Hill, in thevery south of Denmark,bordering on Germany.Here he breeds rabbits,while his sister readsthe works of KarenBlixen, who had a farmin Africa, at the foot ofthe Ngong Hills, whereshe grew coffee. Andthere all similarity ends.

Extract from Min snderjyske farm(Out of Jutland)


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E R L I N G J E P S E N

A TALEOF

FATHERSAND

RABBITS

ERLING JEPSEN

Min snderjyske farm (Out of Jutland),Gyldendal 2013. 272 pp.

PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: Bulgaria, CzechRepublic, Germany, France, Iceland, Italy, theNetherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden.FOREIGN RIGHTS: Leonhardt & Hier LiteraryAgency, Anneli Hier, [email protected]

Jutland) is a singular, bittersweet

and at times grotesque depiction

of a tiny community, a family and

the boy Allan who fights the good

fight with his rabbits, with his father

and with his own, quite universal,

coming-of-age loneliness. Erling

Jepsen pulls no punches in his

scathing expos of the mentality

of a small provincial town and

within a family that has turned

secretiveness and denial into a very

distinct art form.

Erling Jepsen(born 1956) madehis debut as a playwright in 1977

and had his big breakthrough as

a novelist in 2002 with Kunsten

at grde i kor(The Art of Crying

in Unison). This was made into a

film The Art of Crying which was

nominated for an Academy Award

for Best Foreign Language Film

in 2008. Since that first literary

success Jepsen has produced a

string of other works, among them

the novels Frygtelig lykkelig (Terribly

Happy) (Borgen 2004), which has

also been made into a film, Med

venlig deltagelse(Our Most Sincere

Condolences) (Borgen 2006) and

Hovedls sommer(Headless

Summer) (Peoples Press 2011),

the dramatised version of which

has just had its premier at Det

Kongelige Teater in Copenhagen.


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JANUARY2013


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DANISH FICTION

ARMENIAGUITANK PUBLISHINGANNA GRUEDYBT AT FALDE

BRAZILALAUDEA.J. KAZINSKISVNEN OG DDEN

COSACNAIFYKAREN BLIXENBABETTES GSTEBUD

NEMOLOTTE & SREN HAMMERSVINEHUNDE

RECORDMARTIN JENSENEDBRYDER

RECORDMARTIN JENSENEN BONDES ORD

RECORDMARTIN JENSENKONGENS HUNDE

BULGARIAEMASJUSSI ADLER-OLSENKVINDEN I BURET

JANET 45 PUBLISHINGCARSTEN JENSENVI, DE DRUKNEDE

CANADABOOKTHUGMORTEN SNDERGAARDET SKRIDT I DEN RIGTIGERETNING

CHINABIG APPLEJUSSI ADLER-OLSEN

JOURNA L 6 4

CROATIAALGORITAMALEN MEKOVICUKULELE-JAM

CZECH REPUBLICALBATROS/PLUSMARTIN JENSENEDBRYDER

ALBATROS/PLUSMARTIN JENSENEN BONDES ORD

ALBATROS/PLUSMARTIN JENSENKONGENS HUNDE

CZECH RADIOANDERS BODELSENGAVEN

CZECH RADIOANDERS BODELSENEN HRD DAGS NAT

CZECH RADIOTHORKILD HANSENDET LYKKELIGE ARABIEN

HOSTJUSSI ADLER-OLSENMARCO EFFEKTEN

HOSTLOTTE & SREN HAMMERENSOMME HJERTERS KLUB

HOSTSREN & LOTTE HAMMERPIGEN I SATANS MOSE

EGYPTANIMARJAKOB EJERSBOEKSIL

ANIMARJAKOB EJERSBOREVOLUTION

ANIMARJAKOB EJERSBOLIBERTY

ANIMAR

LOTTE & SREN HAMMERSVINEHUNDE

ANIMARLARS HUSUMMIT VENSKAB MED JESUSKRISTUS

ESTONIAEESTI RAAMATKAREN BLIXENVINTER-EVENTYR

SINISUKKSARA BLDELKALD MIG PRINSESSE

FAROE ISLANDSSMITHLEIF DAVIDSENMIN BRODERS VOGTER

FINLANDGUMMERUSJUSSI ADLER-OLSEN

FLASKEPOST FRA PWSOYANNE LISE MARSTRAND-JRGENSENHVAD MAN IKKE VED

FRANCEACTES SUDLOTTE & SREN HAMMERENSOMME HJERTERS KLUB

AUTREMENTANDERS BODELSEN

HNDELIGT UHELDAUTREMENTANDERS BODELSENRD SEPTEMBER

BUCHET CHASTELHELLE HELLEDETTE BURDE SKRIVES INUTID

BUCHET CHASTELJANNE TELLERKOM

LE CHERCHE MIDI

ELSEBETH EGHOLMVOLD OG MAGT

DITIONS DE LAUBEDAN TURLLMORD-SERIEN 1-12

DITIONS GRGESMORTEN NIELSENKRIGERE UDEN VBEN

DITIONS DORMESSONHANNE-VIBEKE HOLSTKRONPRINSESSE-TRILOGIEN

JC LATTSA.J. KAZINSKISVNEN OG DDEN

KAREN BLIXEN

Winters Tales, published in 1942, contains some of KarenBlixens most famous stories. The Danish provincesprovide the backdrop for tales of a more tragicallywistful tone from Blixen, who delves right back into thechildhood and youth of her central characters in search

of the answer to the question of what it is that shapes apersons identity. Karen Blixen, author of such works asSeven Gothic Talesand Out of Africa, has been translatedinto more than thirty languages.


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PIPERHANNE-VIBEKE HOLSTUNDSKYLDNINGEN

SUHRKAMPANNE LISE MARSTRAND-JRGENSENHVAD MAN IKKE VED

WELTBILDJUSSI ADLER-OLSEN

JOURNA L 6 4

WELTBILDJUSSI ADLER-OLSENWASHINGTON DEKRETET

GREECEEKDOSEISKAABERBL & FRIISDRENGEN I KUFFERTEN

EKDOSEISTHERESE PHILIPSENDEN MAN ELSKER

LIVANISA.J. KAZINSKIDEN SIDSTE GODE MAND

LIVANISA.J. KAZINSKISVNEN OG DDEN

HUNGARYANIMUS

JUSSI ADLER-OLSENFLASKEPOST FRA P

ANIMUSJUSSI ADLER-OLSEN

JOURNA L 6 4

ANIMUSA.J. KAZINSKISVNEN OG DDEN

ICELANDBJARTR

NAJA MARIE AIDTSTEN SAKS PAPIR

DRAUMSYNKIM LEINEPROFETERNE IEVIGHEDSFJORDEN

FORLAGIJUSSI ADLER-OLSEN

JO URNAL 6 4

FORLAGIJUSSI ADLER-OLSENMARCO EFFEKTEN

UPPHEIMARSARA BLDELDE GLEMTE PIGER

ITALYNERI POZZAJAKOB MELANDERJESTEN

SONZOGNOANNE LISE MARSTRAND-JRGENSENHVAD MAN IKKE VED

ISRAELKINNERETKAABERBL & FRIISDRENGEN I KUFFERTEN

ROBERT LAFFONTKRISTIAN BANG FOSSDDEN KRER AUDI

GERMANYBTB VERLAG

JANES NIELSENBRAHMADELLERNE

BTB VERLAGLEONORA CHRISTINA SKOVFRSTEELSKEREN

CARLS BOOKS/BERTELSMANNKRISTIAN BANG FOSSDDEN KRER AUDI

CLUB BERTELSMANJUSSI ADLER-OLSEN

JOURNA L 6 4

HEYNE VERLAGSTEFFEN JACOBSENTROF

HEYNE VERLAGA.J. KAZINSKISVNEN OG DDEN

KIEPENHEUER & WITSCHJESPER STEINURO

LUCHTERHANDNAJA MARIE AIDTSTEN SAKS PAPIR

METROLITALEN MEKOVICUKULELE-JAM

JAPANHAYAKAWAA.J. KAZINSKISVNEN OG DDEN

LATVIAJUMAVAHANS HENRIK MLLERBURGUNDIA

THE NETHERLANDS

A.W. BRUNALOTTE & SREN HAMMERPIGEN I SATANS MOSE

DE GEUSCHRISTIAN JUNGERSENDU FORSVINDER

DE GEUSA.J. KAZINSKISVNEN OG DDEN

DE GEUSJESPER STEINURO

KARAKTERJAKOB MELANDERJESTEN

MEULENHOFFKAABERBL & FRIISNATTERGALENS DD

PROMETHEUSJUSSI ADLER-OLSENMARCO EFFEKTEN

NORWAYASCHEHOUG

JUSSI ADLER-OLSENALFAB ET HU SE T

ASCHEHOUGJUSSI ADLER-OLSENMARCO EFFEKTEN

ASCHEHOUGJUSSI ADLER-OLSENOG HUN TAKKEDE GUDERNE

ASCHEHOUGJUSSI ADLER-OLSENWASHINGTON DEKRETET

ASCHEHOUG

JAKOB MELANDERJESTEN

JAKOB MELANDER

Even before publication a lot of interest was beingshown in first-time author Jakob Melanderspsychological thriller jesten(The House that JackBuilt) and it had already been snapped up by anumber of foreign publishers. Awarding it five starsout of a possible six, one enthusiastic reviewer calledit a cool Copenhagen crime novel. In Melandersnovel a Second World War romance has disastrousconsequences, the reverberations of which are felteven in modern-day Copenhagen, where a horrificmurder, later to be known as the Sandman case,shocks the whole city.


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ASCHEHOUGJAKOB MELANDERDE BERUSEDES VEJ

GYLDENDAL NORSK FORLAGKRISTIAN BANG FOSSDDEN KRER AUDI

GYLDENDAL NORSK FORLAGA.J. KAZINSKISVNEN OG DDEN

HEINESENJOSEFINE KLOUGARTSTIGNINGER OG FALD

JURITZEN FORLAGTHORSTEIN THOMSENSNE P HENDES ANSIGT

OKTOBERHELLE HELLEDETTE BURDE SKRIVES INUTID

OKTOBERHELLE HELLEFORESTILLINGEN OM E TUKOMPLICERET LIV MED ENMAND

SCHIBSTED

ELSEBETH EGHOLMTRE HUNDES N AT

SCHIBSTEDJESPER STEINURO

POLANDAMBERA.J. KAZINSKISVNEN OG DDEN

SONIA DRAGAKAABERBL & FRIIS

ET STILLE UMRKELI GTDRAB

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SOUTH KOREAHYUNDAEMUNHAKERIK VALEURDET SYVENDE BARN

SPAINEDICIONES BLENE KAABERBLKADAVERDOKTOREN

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PAMIESJULIE HASTRUP

EN TORN I JET

SIRUELASARA BLDELGRNT STV

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SWEDENBONNIERSJUSSI ADLER-OLSEN

ALFAB ET HU SE T

BONNIERSJUSSI ADLER-OLSENMARCO EFFEKTEN

BONNIERSJUSSI ADLER-OLSENWASHINGTON DEKRETET

ELLERSTRMSPIA TAFDRUPSALAMANDERSOL

FORUMANNE LISE MARSTRAND-JRGENSEN

HVAD MAN IKKE VED

FORUMA.J. KAZINSKISVNEN OG DDEN

FORUMERIK VALEURDET SYVENDE BARN

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RMUSMORTEN SNDERGAARDET SKRIDT I DEN RIGTIGERETNING

TURKEYASPENDOSKAABERBL & FRIISDRENGEN I KUFFERTEN

YAPI KREDI PUBLISHINGINGER CHRISTENSENUDVALGTE DIGTE

UNITED KINGDOMAMAZONCROSSINGMARTIN JENSENEDBRYDER

AMAZONCROSSINGMARTIN JENSENEN BONDES ORD

AMAZONCROSSINGMARTIN JENSENKONGENS HUNDE

HARVILLHELLE HELLEDETTE BURDE SKRIVES INUTID

NORDVIK PRESS

KLAUS RIFBJERGDEN KRONISKE USKYLD

UNITED S TATESAMAZONCROSSINGMARTIN JENSENEDBRYDER

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GRAYWOLF PRESSDORTHE NORSKANTSLAG

TWO LINES PRESSNAJA MARIE AIDT

BAVIAN

DORTHE NORSBeautiful faceted, haunting stories Dorthe Nors isfantastic a rising star of Danish letters. So wrotePulitzer prizewinner Junot Daz of the Kantslag(KarateChop) stories which have been published in variousAmerican magazines. The publication rights for thecomplete Karate Chopcollection have now been sold coinciding neatly with the appearance of a new bookfrom Dorthe Nors: a novel entitled Minna mangler etvelokale(Minna Needs a Rehearsal Room).


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MORTEN DRR

Amir is fed up with school. He cant be botheredcopying letters, and he doesnt like the alphabet, so hemakes up his own, with drawings instead of letters. Buthis Mum and Dad dont understand this alphabet sothey cant read his notes nor can they find him onthe day that he suddenly goes missing. Amirs alphabet(Amirs Alphabet) is the fourth book in writer MortenDrrs series on new Danish children. These books,illustrated by Peter Bay Alexandersen, are suitable forreading aloud to children in the younger classes andfor older children to read themselves.


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MAREN WEISCHER

Sdan begyndte verden(How The World Began) is thestory of science told for children. It describes howthe universe came into being with the Big Bang andhow it evolved from the first stars; how the worldbegan and how life first formed on Earth; howmankind developed into the people we are today, intofamilies and into the very child who, in clear andinstructive words and pictures, is given here a scientificexplanation of the beginning of all things.


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CONTACIM M E

In a quite unique poetry project he

has produced a word pharmacy

consisting of ten medicaments,

contained within ten pill boxes,

each one representing a different

word class or part of speech: Inside

each box is a poem disguised as

an information leaflet explaininghow to take the medicine and

how to deal with side-effects or

overdosage. One is also urged

to contact a poet immediately

should one experience even the

slightest ill effects when using the

prescribed part of speech! Morten

Sndergaard himself describes his

project as a democratic work aimed

both at linguistic connoisseurs and

those who are just starting to learnthe ways of words schoolchildren,

for example. WordPharmacy is an

actual, physical object available

Danish poet MortenSndergaard can nowalso call himself apharmacist.


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M O R T E N S N D E R G A A R D

MORTEN SNDERGAARD

Ordapotek (WordPharmacy).PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO:Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Norway,Russia, Sweden, United Kingdom, Wales.FOREIGN RIGHTS:Gyldendal Group Agency, Sofie Voller,[email protected]

A PO ET IATELY

as a travel set or an honest-to-

goodness medicine cabinet. It

has been translated into English,

German, French, Russian,

Norwegian, Welsh and Greek.

Morten Sndergaard(born 1964)

broke onto the Danish literary scenein 1992 with the collection of poems

Sahara i mine hnder(Sahara in

my Hands) and has twice been

nominated for the Nordic Council

Prize for Literature. His latest poetry

collection Fordele og ulemper ved

at udvikle vinger(The Pros and Cons

of Developing Wings) (2013) takes

his work with word classes a stage

further in a more lyrical form, with

each section of the book relatingin different ways to one of the ten

parts of speech.


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C L A S S I C S I N N E W GA RB

CAN YOU IMAGINE GOETHES YOUNG WERTHE RAS A GRAFFITI ARTIST? HAMLET IN SUNGLASSESAND BLACK T-SHIRT? OR DON QUIXOTE ASTRIDEA TRACTOR CALLE D ROSINANTE WIT H SANCHOPANZA RIDING ALONGSIDE ON AN OLD MOPED?

Ask writer Oscar K. and illustrators

Dorte Karrebk and Lilian Brgger

this and the answer will be a loud,

resounding yes. Because these

three have, in fact, used (almost)

every trick in the book, so to speak,

in their work on the new Illustrated

World Literature series.

It is the Danish Teachers

Associations own publishing house,

Dansklrerforeningens Forlag,

which, with a boxed set of six fully

illustrated classics, has allowed a

slice of world literature to escape

from the sealed chamber it normally

inhabits. The aim of the series is to

introduce young readers to such

diverse works as Dostoyevskys

Crime and Punishment, Cervantes

Don Quixote, Raymond Chandlers

The Big Sleep, Voltaires Candide:

C L A S S I C SIN NE W G A R B

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or, the Optimistand Shakespeares

Hamlet. In a fine balance between

words and pictures these

canonised, not to say almost sacred

texts, have been taken lovingly

in hand and brought up to dateby writer and illustrators. Does

this show a shameless disregard

for our literary heritage? Or a

refreshing lack of over-reverence

for the classic works, one which is

possibly necessary if they are to be

rendered accessible to modern-day

children and young people? And

what use, if any, to kids today is the

tale of a prince or an impoverishedpetty nobleman from the early

seventeenth century, a hapless

optimist from the eighteenth

century or a failed student from the

In vain I reach my hands out for her in the morning, in vainI feel for her at night in my bed when a happy, innocent dreamhas fooled me into believing that she is near, that I am holdingher hand, covering it with a thousand kisses. When, half-dazed

with sleep, I reach out for her and wake with a heavy heart, Iweep inconsolably over my bleak future.

(Extract from The Sorrows of Young Werther)

nineteenth century? Is this simply a

case of adults trying to spoon-feed

them a bygone cultural ideal?

One of the people behind the series,

chairman of the Danish TeachersAssociation Jens Raahauge,

explains that the initial idea for it

sprang from the firm belief that

the classic literary works have

something relevant to say to any

reader, of any time, about absolutely

fundamental social situations: that

young Werthers lovesickness is

universal and something with which

tender, unrequited hearts in 2013can easily identify; that in a world

of cultural clashes and conflicts

Hamlet can provide the fodder for

a discussion on how to act when

ones family or friends have been

hurt or wronged; that Don Quixotes

inability to differentiate between

fact and fiction has direct bearing

on the modern teenagers world of

computer games and reality shows.Armed with this conviction they

push off with a number of what Jens

Raahauge describes as appetizers.

The point is not to tempt readers

into reading complete works in their

original languages; not that they

absolutely have to understand all of

the background or be given in-depth

explanations. The point is to make

young readers want to come upwith the explanations themselves,

to make world literature accessible

to all young people and to show

them that it can be interesting

ILLUSTRATION: DORTE KARREBKILLUSTRATION: LILIAN BRGGER


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(and fun) to get to know the great

figures of literature. The language

style of the original works has

been retained in these retellings,

just as the characters and the

problems confronting them staytrue to the originals. The modern

element is provided primarily by

the illustrations - and the layout,

which has been played with and

experimented with in such a way

that the pictures act as a bridge

between the classic texts, so rooted

in tradition, and young modern

readers: a new generation which,

with these six illustrated and freshlyinterpreted classics, is presented

with its very own versions of some

great works of world literature.ILLUSTRATION: LILIAN BRGGER

ILLUSTRATION: LILIAN BRGGER


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Hamlet is alone, despising himself for still nothaving avenged his fathers death. Is he a coward?Why does no one call him a villain or bash his headin? He is a miserable wretch who cannot act, butonly talk and talk, because he is a pigeon-liveredrascal who cannot even burn with rage over the wrongthat has been done if he did, all the hawks in the

country would have picked clean the bones of thattreacherous, lecherous, kindless villain Claudius!Revenge! Revenge! Extract from Hamlet

ILLUSTRATION: DORTE KARREBK


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boxed set also includes a volume

on reading world literature. This

book, entitled Don Erudito and

also written by Oscar K., is not

however illustrated. All of these

titles are published as a set by

Dansklrerforeningens Forlag.

Publishing rights have so far

been sold to Norway, Russia and

Sweden, while Oscar K.s other

works have, in addition, sold to

Canada and to Ireland. Oscar K.

and Dorte Karrebk have also

collaborated on a retelling of

the Bible, Biblia Pauperum Nova,

published by Forlaget Alfa work,

described by the newspaper

Politiken as nigh on flawless,

which was nominated for the 2012

Politiken Prize for Literature.

For information on foreign rights pleasecontact Dansklrerforeningens Forlag,[email protected]

This gentleman read so much and slept so littlethat his brain dried up completely and his witsalong with it. In the end nothing in the world was

as real to him as the inventions and fancies of theknights . And he made up his mind to go out into theworld and do all the things that he had read aboutin his books . He would become a knight errant andright all the wrongs in the world, expose himself to

peril and danger and win honour and fame. Andperhaps, he thought to himself, be made an Emperor

as a reward. (Extract from Don Quixote)

Oscar K., alias Ole Dalgaard, has

allied himself with illustrator

Lilian Brgger to produce

retellings of Dostoyevskys Crime

and Punishment, Goethes The

Sorrows of Young Wertherand

Cervantes Don Quixote. Along with

illustrator Dorte Karrebk he

has given the same treatment to

Raymond Chandlers The Big Sleep,

Voltaires Candide: or, the Optimist

and Shakespeares Hamlet. The

ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATED WORLD LITERATURE (CLASSICS) SERIES

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Prizes and

nominations for

the prophets

Kim Leine

2012 has been Kim Leines year.

With Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden

(The Prophets of Eternal Fjord),

his mammoth novel about the

wide realm of Denmark in the late

eighteenth century stretching

from the streets of Copenhagen

to the trading posts of Greenland

- won him brilliant reviews, a solidposition on the bestseller lists and a

host of award nominations. And now

they are showering down on him

the awards, that is. First the Danish

Booksellers own prize, the Golden

Laurels, then theWeekendavisen

Prize for Literature, voted for by

the newspapers readers and

finally the daily Politikensprize.

So, only six years after publicationof his first book, Kim Leine now

joins the exalted ranks of writers

such as Jens Christian Grndahl,

Helle Helle, Christian Jungersen

and Jakob Ejersbo. As the literary

critic for Weekendavisensaid when

presenting the award: Readers

adore Kim Leine. Possibly because

at a time when so much anaemic

literature is being published he

is heretic enough to tell a grand,

sweeping story. And this springmay well bring more prizes Leines

way. He is also nominated for the

Nordic Council Prize for Literature

and for the 2013 Berlingske Tidende

Readers Book Award. It comes

as no great surprise that Kim

Leine should have gained such

ascendancy with his novel about a

meeting of cultures, for good and ill

- a book that has been described asa masterpiece and a milestone. It

tells the story of a young Norwegian,

Morten Falck, who studies theology

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in Copenhagen then takes up a post

in Greenland. But he finds it difficult

to adapt to life there, especially

when a rebellion breaks out among

the Christian Greenlanders and

he finds himself torn between

following the Greenlandic dreams of

freedom and enforcing the laws of

Denmark. Kim Leine(born 1961) madehis literary debut in 2007 with the

novel Kalak, following this with

Valdemarsdag(Valdemars Day) in

2008 and Tunuin 2009.

First Novel Award

to former soldier

Anne-CathrineRiebnitzsky

Absolutely brilliant this wasthe verdict of the chairman of

the judges, on awarding the

BogForum First Novel Award to

Den Stjlne vej(The Stolen Road)

by Anne-Catherine Riebnitzsky.

That Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky

gives us such insight into her

characters - even the villains - is

quite an achievement. In this, her

first novel, Riebnitzsky describesthe dramatic events experienced

by three individuals during the

war in Afghanistan. One of these is

Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden(The Prophets ofEternal Fjord), Gyldendal 2012, 525 pp.

PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: France, Germany,Hungary, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlan ds,Norway, Rumania, Spain, Sweden, UnitedKingdom, United States. FOREIGN RIGHTS:Gyldendal Group Agency, Sofie Voller, [email protected]

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Den utrolige historie om den kmpestorepre (The Incredible Story of the EnormousPear), Gyldendal 2012, 99 pp. PREVIOUS TITLESSOLD TO: China, Faroe Islands, Finland, France,Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, It aly, Korea,the Netherlands, Norway, Rusland, Sweden,United Kingdom. FOREIGN RIGHTS: GyldendalGroup Agency, Louise Langhoff Koch, [email protected]

Crown Prince and

Princesss Award tochildrens book

Jakob Martin Strid

Poet receives

Montana Prize Ursula Andkjr

OlsenA huge step forward for Danish

poetry this was just one of

many compliments paid to UrsulaAndkjr Olsensseventh collectionof poetry, Det 3. rtusindes hjerte

(The Heart of the 3rd Millenium), for

which she was awarded this years

Montana Prize for Literature. This

collection has been hailed as a newdeparture in Olsens writing. Here,

in stringent, monumental form,

she reworks painful experiences

of separation and union and

introduces them into a sphere that

is as political as it is human.

You are in me as

I am all the world, fruitof the garden. And warmth,

protection, food

and transport

So we must be parted before we

can meet, we are

as one, and so must come apart.

That we may meet.

I am all you are, I am warmth,

protection, food

into an enormous pear. Even before

the ink was dry on the illustrations

this book had been snapped up byseveral international publishers

and since then Jakob Martin Strid(born 1972) has been awarded the

Danish Crown Prince and Princesss

Award for his work as a childrens

writer, a career that got off to a flying

start in 1999 with the publication of

Mustafas kiosk(Mustaphas Kiosk).

In their motivation of the award the

Crown Prince and Princess cited,among other things, the unique

quality of Jakob Martin Strids work,

its humour and relevance and the

quirky and easily recognisable

style that constitutes the essence

of the colourful stories we know

from Mustaphas Kiosk, Lille fr

(Little Seed), Min mormors gebis (My

Grandmas False Teeth) and this

year Den utrolige historie om denkmpestore pre(The Incredible

Story of the Enormous Pear). With

his subtle eye for the key topics of

our times he succeeds in combining

wisdom with an occasionally

reckless, but always gentle wit.

PHOTO:ROLANDODIAZ

Malika, a modern, well-educated

woman who secretly teaches other

women to read. On the home front

she is struggling to come to terms

with the fact that her husband

has taken another wife a girl ofjust thirteen who regularly meets

Javeed, a boy from the street who

has been raped by a policeman

and whom Malika sets out to help.

Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky(born1974), is a graduate from the Danish

Writers School, but she is also a

Russian language officer with the

Danish Army who worked at the

Danish embassy in Moscow beforebeing sent to Afghanistan, first as

a soldier and later as an advisor

to the Danish Ministry of Foreign

Affairs. She has previously written

a work of non-fiction entitled

Kvindernes krig(The Womens

War) about the lives of women in

Afghanistan. In 2011 the First Novel

Prize was awarded to Erik Valeur for

his crime novel Det Syvende Barn(The Seventh Child).

Den stjlne vej (The Stolen Road),Politikens Forlag 2012, 320 pp.FOREIGN RIGHTS: Politikens Forlag, NyaGuldberg, [email protected]

Jakob Martin Strids Den utrolige

historie om den kmpestore

pre(The Incredible Story of the

Enormous Pear) has been warmly

received by readers and critics alike.In words and wonderful pictures this

tells the story of two friends who

find a seed that grows overnight

PHOTO:MORTEN

HOLTUM


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Det 3. rtusindes hjerte(The Heart of the 3rdMillenium), Gyldendal 2012, 213 pp.FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal GroupAgency, Sofie Voller, [email protected]

En lille bog om Blixen(A Little Book AboutBlixen), Lindhardt og Ringhof, 233 pp.FOREIGN RIGHTS:Lindhardt og Ringhof, Susanne Gribfeldt,[email protected]

FOREIGN RIGHTS: Pia Juul:Tiderne Skifter,Claus Clausen, [email protected] Bang Foss, Harald Voetmann:Gyldendal Group Agency, Jenny Thor, jenny_

[email protected]

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Nominees for

Critics Prize

Nominees for the

Nordic Council

Prize for Literature

Prize for book on

Blixen Sune deSouza Schmidt-

Madsen

The Danish Critics Guild hasnominated the following three

titles for its 2012 Critics Prize.

According to the press release

issued by the members of the

Guild, these three are all notable

for their great literary merit. The

nominees are Pia Juulfor the shortstory collectionAf sted, til stede

(Out of Place, In Place), Tiderne

Skifter 2012, Kristian Bang Fossfor the novel Dden krer Audi

(Death Drives an Audi), Gyldendal

2012, and Harald Voetmannfor thenovel Kdet letter (The Flesh Lifts),

Gyldendal 2012.

This years Danish nominees for the

Nordic Council Prize for Literatureare Josefine Klougart and Kim

Leine. Young Josefine Klougart(born 1985) is nominated for the

second time for her novel n af

os sover(One Of Us Is Sleeping),

Rosinante 2012. Klougarts previous

books have been sold to Norway

and Sweden. Kim Leine(born1961), broke onto the literary scene

in 2007 with the autobiographicalnovel Kalak, and made his big

breakthrough to a much wider

audience with Profeterne i

Evighedsfjorden (The Prophets of

Eternal Fjord), Gyldendal 2012,

which has been awarded the

2012 Golden Laurels, the Danish

booksellers prize for the best

book of the year, and the 2012

WeekendavisenPrize for Literature.

The 2012 Georg Brandes Prize

was presented to En lille bog om

Blixen(A Little Book About Blixen)

by Sune de Souza Schmidt-

Madsen. This guide to Karen

Blixens universe and her brilliant

gift for storytelling is the most

beautiful introduction anyone

could have. So said the reviewer

in the newspaper Politiken on the

publication of this book, which

weaves the different strands of

Karen Blixens persona - the artist,

the woman and the myth - into a

vivid account of her amazing life

and the captivating tales to which

it gave rise.

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PHOTO:MORTEN

HOLTUM

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Danish Literary Magazine Spring 2013(1)

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