writers

Adam Oehlenschläger is considered the leading figure of Danish Romanticism.

Thanks to his fairy tales and stories, Hans Christian Andersen is probably the most widely read author in the world today.

Henrik Stangerup pursued a versatile career as novelist, journalist, essayist and film director.

Herman Bang was frequently travelling and restlessly active as an author, journalist, stage director and reader. He created short stories and novels which have been called impressionist.

Inger Christensen was a prominent and internationally renowned modernistic poet.

Jens Peter Jacobsen was a scientist and exclusive poet associated with the so-called "modern breakthrough" in Danish literature in the 1870s.

Johannes V. Jensen is considered the father of Danish modernism and one of only three Danish authors to have won the Nobel Prize for literature.

Breaking through internationally under the pseudonym of Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen arguably is the greatest Danish author in the 20th century.

Klaus Rifbjerg is one of the principal figures in Danish post-war literature and cultural criticism, a rejuvenator especially of lyric poetry.

Ludvig Holberg was the author who created a professional Danish drama. As a dramatist Holberg was close to Molière.

An author for almost 75 years, Grundtvig's work as a theologian, scholar, poet and popular educator was epoch-making.

Most famous for his novel "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow", Høeg is one of the major writers of contemporary Danish fiction.

Piet Hein was a scientist, mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet.

Søren Kierkegaard was among the most prominent existentialists. His publications are philosophical, psychological, religious and Christian.

Steen Steensen Blicher was admired as the man who had opened the reading public's eyes to the life and nature of Jutland.

Villy Sørensen has helped establish a contemporary norm as both a writer of fiction and an essayist.