“It is a great depiction, and you’ll find some good places to go on a drinking binge. The Murder Series is a group of hard-boiled detective novels, set in an alternative crime-ridden version of 1980’s Copenhagen. He wrote about jazz, drugs and the city life. Dan Turèll – The Murder Series (1981-89)ĭan Turèll is Denmark’s contribution to the beat literary movement. She is a storyteller”, says Laila Dalgaard, who is studying literary history. Even contemporary books cannot beat Blixen’s novel, because she knows what her readers want.

“Out of Africa is an example of life as a colonial lady in Africa, and is a tale that reinvents itself time after time. It traces Blixen’s 17 years in Kenya when the country was under British colonial rule. “Out of Africa” (see the book on the picture above) was originally published in 1937 as a memoir by Isak Dinesen, which was the pen name of Blixen. Some think it is a somewhat auto-biographical piece, which tells us about his personality,” he says. “You should read it, because it shows another side of H.C. According to our calculations which have been backed up by several scientists, it is, at least in terms of readership, bigger than the Bible.Īndersen’s fairy tale, “the Shadow”, was first published in 1847, and displays a gloomier side to Andersen, according to our expert Christian Kronow. Andersen’s fairy tales have been translated and adapted enumerable times around the globe, and his birthday is celebrated as the International Children’s Book Day on the 2 April. Hans Christian Andersen – The Shadow (1847)Ĭhristian Kronow, a Danish student, recommends new readers start with the most internationally renowned Danish poet and author. The University Post deliberately avoided the professors and recognized experts and asked three students of Danish and Literature to give their recommendations on where to begin. Where should you start? The list of must-reads is long, and it’s hard to find consensus on which books should be on the list in the first place. If you are Danish, of course, you will have been acquainted with several Danish classic works in school.īut say you’d like to start reading Danish literature. You won’t be alone, even if you are Danish, if you admit that you have not read any of them, either in Danish or in translation.Īfter all, as an outsider, it is hard to make the initial investment in reading Danish literature if you know that only a handful of them reach the status of iconic world classics. How many Danish literary works have YOU actually read? Don’t be shy.

Kongens fald by Johannes V. Jensen