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the season’s Danish literary crop, Danish
Literary Magazine is the place for you. Take,
for example, the new novel from the already
internationally acclaimed Dorte Nors, Mirror,
Why do some Danish books sell like hot cakes
Shoulder, Signal. Or Peder Frederik Jensen,
abroad, while other hits on the home market
whose novel Violence is a deeply original
just get lost in the crowd?
example of modern, socially conscious
literature. Or there is multi-award-winning
I’m afraid we can’t answer that one, but our
interviews with three acquiring editors from
author Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky’s latest
France, the USA and Sweden, provide some
novel The Hurricane Season and the Silence.
level of insight into what they look for when
buying literature for translation.
non-fiction at the moment as well. In this
edition, we present recent books from two
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award-winning journalists: Jakob Sheikh’s
writers who are winning awards. It will also
account of young Danish people who travel to
remind you of the application deadlines for
Syria to fight as jihadists, and Puk Damsgård’s
the Danish Arts Foundation’s international
shocking report The ISIS Hostage.
pools, to which you can apply for funding for
everything from translation and production to
As ever, we do our best to bring you the
best of current Danish literature, but there
marketing and support for research trips.
will always be good books that we don’t have
room for. To cover this gap, the Danish Arts
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Annette Bach
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
DANISH LITERARY MAGAZINE
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Within our country there are tons of
Excerpt from VOLD (VIOLENCE)
PHOTO: LARS GUNDERSEN
Vold (Violence) is both the story of
The basic theme in this book is
people who are seeking something
a road trip through West Africa and
the act of violence that is hidden
different. I don’t think that the
a street view of the counter-culture
in a story and how we build a story
social welfare state will survive.
of Copenhagen in the 90s. It is a
about ourselves, both in our close
coming of age novel, a thoughtrelationships, but also in regards
Simon is rootless and his journey
provoking tour-de-force and also
to the bigger picture. Each partner
directionless. What is the story you
a love story. In the novel, Simon
holds onto their own perception of
want to tell?
is a young writer living near Isted
reality. The theme is similar in both
There is no plot in one’s existence.
Street, a popular haunt for junkies
Banedanmark (Danish Rail) and
Writers such as Ryszard Kapuand prostitutes near the main
Violence. It’s about looking at how
ci ski, Isabelle Eberhardt and
station in Copenhagen.
Thomas Boberg have
His relationship with his
inspired me. In Eberhardt’s
“The unbridled nature
girlfriend is at a standstill
book, there is no plot. One
of Vold (Violence) fascinates me.
and one day he can’t take
is released from gender,
it anymore. He packs his
circumstances, etc. It’s
When Peder Frederik Jensen opens
backpack and takes off
about finding oneself in
the floodgates, it’s like looking
to West Africa – not to
a situation and having to
down a trembling volcano of artistic
find himself, but to get
manage as well as you can.
energy and creative potential. I find
away from it all, from his
it’s a courageous book, that initiates
dysfunctional family, from
Born in 1978, PEDER
love and death. But what
FREDERIK JENSEN
vital discussions and dares to do
greets him is a chaos that
attended The Danish
something completely different.”
forces him to confront his
Academy of Creative
JAKOB MALLING LAMBERT, EDITOR
own past, both the abuses
Writing and is also a trained
he has suffered and those
boatbuilder. His debut novel
who have suffered at his own hand.
we represent ourselves. Denmark
Her står du (You’re Standing Here)
Vold (Violence) is in many ways a
keeps holding onto the idea of us as
was published in 2007. In 2012 he
brutal novel about how victims can
the good guys. What are we doing
published Læretid (Apprenticeship),
become violent men, and vice versa.
when our planes bomb Libya, but we
followed by the short story
won’t accept refugees a year later?
collection Banedanmark (Danish
In a recent interview you state:
Rail) in 2014, which was nominated
“Every time one ignores that one
Does your novel present a cultural
for the 2016 EU Literature Prize.
lives in a privileged world, one
change occuring in Denmark?
becomes a cynic.” How does this
Simon becomes a part of the global
perspective relate to your writing?
community when Soda asks him
“Then he began to talk about Africa.
I started thinking about selffor money. That’s when he realizes
About Soda in her bathrobe, when
awareness, morality and
that everything that he knew about
she made eggs and toasted bread,
responsibility in Scandinavia.
the world was banal – a simple
while Dakar buzzed outside. About
There’s an enormous hypocrisy
Scandinavian way of understanding
that moment when she asked if
in the way the Danes perceive
the world.
he could help her out with a little
themselves, amongst others, based
money, when he was standing in the
on the story of how great we were
Besides this being a love story, it’s
doorway, on his way to Mali by train.
during the Holocaust. But that’s
also a confrontation with one’s
He said, I want to write about that
fictional as well.
own cultural self-importance. In
journey, that home doesn’t exist,
Denmark we would like to be a part
that a place is defined by that which
of
the
bigger
context,
but
we
also
Vold (Violence)
Samleren 2016, 384 pages.
flows through it. But it all ended up
want to isolate ourselves. That’s
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Copenhagen Literary
being about violence.”
impossible
within
our
democracy.
Agency, Monica Gram, [email protected].
PEDER FREDERIK JENSEN
“THERE’S AN ENORMOUS
HYPOCRISY IN THE WAY THE DANES
PERCEIVE THEMSELVES”
Jensen stands out as a notable voice and social commentator
on the Danish literary scene. Echoes of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of
Darkness are apparent in Violence, but here the ‘dark heart’ is a
global wanderer, and darkness can be found anywhere – in this
case at home in the Danish welfare state. From Dakar to Denmark,
Jensen pieces together thousands of years of global cultural
puzzles, breaking down patterns and borders.
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The Debutant Prize
– 20 years of history,
seen from below
Morten Pape won the Debutant
Prize 2015 for the semiautobiographical Bildungsroman
Planen (The Ghetto), which explored
the harsh realities of growing up
in the socially deprived housing
estate Urbanplanen on Vestamager,
Copenhagen.
separated, dysfunctional family –
comes up with survival strategies
in a concrete jungle, may be clearly
fuelled by personal anger but it also
paints a convincing picture of a
place in time and of change.” - Jury
chair Mona Madsen. The Debutant
Prize is worth DKK 50,000.
“Morten Pape’s story of how
he – a bespectacled nerd from a
MORTEN PAPE, born 1986, and
a winner of Politiken’s prize for
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feature articles, is studying
screenwriting at the film school
Super16.
MORTEN PAPE
Planen (The Plan/The Ghetto)
Politikens Forlag 2015, 565 pages
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Politiken Literary Agency,
Nya Guldberg, [email protected]
AWARDS
KLAUS
HØECK
JESP
S TEIN ER
The Cavling Prize
– Everyday Closeups of War
The 2015 Cavling Prize, a
prestigious Danish award for
journalism, honours correspondent
Puk Damsgård for her coverage of
human stories behind the conflicts
in the Middle East, and for her book
JB ØR N SSEN
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Ser du månen, Daniel (The ISIS
Hostage).
Danish freelance photographer
Daniel Rye was kidnapped and
held hostage by ISIS in Syria for 13
months. The story is his touching
and terrifying experience of torture
and friendship, surviving in prison
under extreme circumstances, as
well as an insight into the people
who guarded the hostages.
Kirsten Pilgaard, president of the
Cavling committee said: “When
Damsgaard tells us about life in the
Middle East, we also get the story
of how it is to live with war. She
brings us directly into the everyday,
lived between the wreckage and
uncertainty.”
PHOTO: KEN HERMANN
Born in 1978, PUK DAMSGÅRD is
Danish Broadcasting Corporation’s
Middle East correspondent based
in Cairo. She has received several
awards, including the Freedom of
Speech Award from Jyllands-Posten
and the Journalism Award from
the Berlingske Foundation. Her
other books include De Renes Land
(Land of the Pure, 2009), Ulvehjerter
(Wolfhearts, 2011) and Hvor solen
græder (Under a Crying Sun - a story
from Syria, 2014).
PUK DAMSGÅRD
Ser du månen, Daniel (The ISIS Hostage),
Politikens Forlag 2015, 304 pages. FOREIGN
RIGHTS: Politiken, Rudi Rasmussen,
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The Nordic Council
Literature Prize
– The best of Danish
poetry right now
The Nordic Council awards an annual
prize for literature to a work of fiction
in one of the Nordic languages. The
prize is worth DKK 350,000.
This year the Danish nominees are
the poets Klaus Høeck for Legacy
and Bjørn Rasmussen for Ming.
KLAUS HØECK
The 2015 Booksellers Award,
De Gyldne Laurbær (The Golden
Laurel), was awarded to Jesper
Stein for his crime novel Aisha, the
fourth novel in the popular Axel
Steen crime series, which Stein
refers to as “2200 Noir” (2200 is a
Copenhagen postcode).
At the start of Aisha, the tortured
body of Sten Høeck is found in a
penthouse apartment. Høeck, a
notorious womanizer, was Maersk’s
chief of security, but also did some
work for PET, Denmark’s secret
service. With his death, secrets
about PET activities have been lost
forever, but when another former
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Born in 1965, JESPER STEIN is
a former law and crime reporter
based in Copenhagen. He received
the Danish Crime Academy Debut
award in 2012 for his novel Uro
(Unrest), the first in a trilogy, with
Bye Bye Blackbird following in 2013
and Akrash in 2014. Film rights to
the trilogy have been sold to SF
Film in Denmark.
PHOTO: FRIDA GREGERSEN
Dagbladet Information said: “His
language is original and jaunty, as
he borrows from the hard-boiled
genre, and shapes it into his very
own lyrical narrative voice.”
intelligence officer turns up dead,
Steen begins to link the murders to
an old terrorism case, one that not
only involves his former boss, but
also his new girlfriend.
Legacy (Legacy) Gyldendal 2015, 585 pages.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency,
Jenny Thor, [email protected]
PHOTO: KH FOTO
The Booksellers Award
– Bestselling Copenhagen Noir
JESPER STEIN
Aisha (Aisha)
Politikens Forlag 2015, 440 pages.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Politiken Literary Agency,
Rudi Rasmussen, [email protected]
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Sweden, The Netherlands
BJØRN RASMUSSEN
Ming (Ming) Gyldendal 2015, 87 pages.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency,
Jenny Thor, [email protected]
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BOOKS IN BRIEF
FICTION
WHY CAN’T YOU JUST
BLOODY WELL LEARN TO
DRIVE? ON FINDING YOUR
WAY IN LIFE
“Dorthe Nors surprises me every
time she hands in a new manuscript.
And yet there is a recurring voice and
musicality throughout her work. She
‘gets’people and has a huge talent for
satire. Mirror, Shoulder, Signal conveys
pain, but it is also rambunctiously
funny and told with great empathy.
Dorthe has a special and completely
unpretentious type of star quality, and
looks her readers straight in the eye.”
Julie Paludan-Müller, editor.
DORTHE NORS, born 1970, has a
master’s in Nordic literature and art
history. She made her literary debut
in 2001 with the novel Soul, followed
by a string of critically acclaimed
books and short stories. In 2011,
she was awarded the Danish Arts
Foundation’s three-year working
grant, followed in 2014 by the Per
Olov Enquist Prize.
PHOTO: ASTRID DALUM
O: The Oprah Magazine, The New
Yorker and The Paris Review are just
three of the big US media outlets
to realise just how talented Dorthe
Nors is. After one of her short
stories was published in The Boston
Review in 2009, others, including
Harper’s Magazine, soon came
calling – culminating in autumn
2013 when the prestigious The New
Yorker published Hejren (The Heron)
from the collection Kantslag (Karate
Chop), heralding her international
breakthrough.
Dorthe’s new novel, Spejl skulder
blink (Mirror, Shoulder, Signal),
about Sonja, who earns a living
translating Swedish crime fiction and
is taking driving lessons from the
sleazy instructor Folke, has just been
published. Sonja’s masseuse Ellen
thinks the emotional stress of learning
to drive has worked its way into her
body and is doing her best to relieve
the tension. Her friend Molly and
sister Kate also offer their own unique
outlooks on life and its challenges.
Nors conjures up concise, subtle and
humorous snapshots of the modern
compulsion to analyse ourselves and
each other, and of our simple desire
to be able to cope.
“... A LITTLE LIKE
DANISH FURNITURE,
SPARE AND SUBLIME”
O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
DORTHE NORS
Spejl skulder blink (Mirror, Shoulder, Signal)
Gyldendal 2016, 192 pages
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LOSS, GUILT AND
UNIVERSAL TRUTHS
SPINNING LITERARY GOLD
FROM A BAD START IN LIFE
But it does get worse: His mum actually
drowns, his dad barricades himself in
his bedroom with a ton of chocolate
and a TV, and the only adults Henry
has anything to do with are teachers
and psychologists. To make matters
worse, Alma is deported to Funen.
His mate Adam is a rare bright spot
in this gloom – but is he falling for the
incredibly irritating Alice?
Henry turns to his notebook and
starts exacting revenge on reality.
Det kommer til at ske (It Will Happen)
is about spinning literary gold out
of a bad start in life, and then being
confronted by the people you wrote
about, who are not best pleased and
out for revenge.
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On her last novel Politiken wrote:
“In its own indirect and ironic way,
Politisk Roman (Political Novel) rips
into all of us good, well-meaning,
hypocritical, weak and powerless
middle-class types – the ones who
shy away from politics, leaving the
stage free to ‘the worst types, full of
passionate intensity’. It isn’t just good
literature; it is important and timely.
Read it before everyone else does.”
LONE ABURAS, born 1979, made
her debut in 2009 with the novel
Føtexsøen (The Føtex Lake), which was
lauded by the Danish Arts Foundation
as one of the best books of the
year, and has since been dramatised.
She followed up with the critically
acclaimed Den svære toer (The Difficult
Second Book) and Politisk Roman
(Political Novel). In 2010, she was
awarded the Danish Arts Foundation’s
three-year working grant.
LONE ABURAS
Det kommer til at ske (It Will Happen)
Gyldendal 2016, 176 pages FOREIGN RIGHTS:
Gyldendal Group Agency, Jenny Thor, jenny_
[email protected]
The reviewer from Berlingske was
enthusiastic about Beck’s last novel:
“In Familien Kammer (The Kammer
Family), Hanne Richardt Beck lays
PHOTO: MORTEN HOLTUM
Things just can’t get any worse for
young Henry. His mum likes to play
dead, his dad digs graves for her in
the garden, Henry brings her back to
life with his toy doctor’s kit – and the
beautiful, cross-eyed Alma knows all
about it.
PHOTO: ROBIN SKJOLDBORG
DARKEST OF
SOCIAL SATIRE
Purely by chance, a pile of small
human bones is found on a hillside
in Mallorca. On closer analysis, they
appear to be those of Luis, a boy who
disappeared without a trace 13 years
ago. The case leads Spanish detective
Pilar to three Danish women who
were on holiday in the house next
door to Luis’s father when his son
disappeared. Uforudsete hændelser
(Unpredictable Incidents) is a study
of friendship and the bonds between
parents and children, but it is also
about loss and guilt, about the female
body, about the brevity and erratic
nature of human life.
BOOKS IN BRIEF / FICTION
PHOTO: ANDERS BEIER
bare the shredded souls of suburban
middle-class Denmark. It is pure
poetry, but like all true art it’s also
undiluted reality.”
HANNE RICHARDT BECK,
born 1959, made her debut in 1993
with the novel De brune øjne, Arthur
(The Brown Eyes, Arthur) and has
since published several novels and a
collection of short stories. She has
received a number of grants and
awards, including from the Danish
Arts Foundation.
HANNE RICHARDT BECK
Uforudsete hændelser
(Unpredictable Incidents)
Gyldendal 2016, 350 pages.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group
Agency, Jenny Thor, jenny_thor@
gyldendalgroupagency.dk
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STORIES THAT
TRANSFORM TIME
UNFLINCHING
REALISM WITH
IMAGINATIVE
COMPLICATIONS
GLOBE-SPANNING
LOVE STORY
In Brooklyn, a young man gets
involved with Ana Iván, an intense
artist and mathematician who is
preparing to conduct an experiment
that will remove her sense of time.
Ana was born in Romania, right
before the fall of Ceausescu in
1989, and through their gradual
acquaintance the narrator begins to
learn about her past and a bizarre
story that has haunted her family for
generations, leading him on a journey
from the mathematical institute in
Ceausescu’s Bucharest to a village
in Morocco and onwards to the art
scenes in Bergen and Brooklyn. In
an abandoned gallery, a secret is
revealed, one that switches dates
and times around, and allows Ana’s
family to escape from the past and
eventually find their way into the life
of the narrator. It is a novel about
love in all forms, and the ability of
stories to transform our lives. “A
story, that holds many threads and
many fates and many places…and
despite that, doesn’t lose its focus
or stumble in its own philosophical
curiosities.” – Berlingske.
Born in 1987, MIKKEL
ROSENGAARD debuted as a writer
for young adults in 2010 with his
novel Videre (Next). He has been
living in New York since 2010, where
he works for the PEN World Voices
literary festival.
MIKKEL ROSENGAARD
Forestillinger om Ana Ivan
(The Premature Death of Ana Ivan)
Gyldendal 2016, 272 pages. FOREIGN RIGHTS:
Gyldendal Group Agency, Jenny Thor, jenny_
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LIFE IN THE
DISSONANT ZONE
Zoe, a pianist, teaches at the
conservatory but dreams of
composing again. Frederik, her nineyear-old boy, is good at maths and
computer games. Zoe has a friend
called Beate, a photographer whose
husband has just left her. The three
are fixed points in each other’s lives,
but when things goes wrong for Zoe,
all of their relationships are thrown
out of kilter. A wolf interval is a
musical term that describes the minor
dissonance that enables certain tonal
systems to work as a whole. The book
is about what happens when life gets
stuck in the dissonant zone, and how
it affects everyone around you.
On her last book: Siden blev det for pænt
(Then it Got Too Nice) Jyllands-Posten
wrote: “The book cuts right to the
bone. You hear the nerves crackling,
and it’s seductively wicked [...]
Trisse Gejl establishes herself in the
pantheon of Danish writing with this
description of her fictional colleague’s
mental afflictions.”
TRISSE GEJL, born 1968, is a
former editor and journalist on
several top Danish newspapers
and magazines. She made her
debut in 1995 with the novel Hvor
mælkebøtter gror (Where Dandelions
Grow), followed by Spradefuglen
(Spradefuglen) and Stilleben (Still
Life). Her breakthrough came
in 2006 with Patriarken (The
Patriarch), which was nominated
for Weekendavisen’s Literature
Prize and the P2 Novel Prize. In
2012, Siden blev det for pænt (Then
it Got Too Nice) was nominated
for the Danish Broadcasting
Corporation’s Novel Prize.
TRISSE GEJL
Ulvekvinten (The False Note)
People’s Press 2016, 256 pages.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: People Group Agency,
Louise Langhoff Koch, [email protected]
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A NOVEL ABOUT
WHAT ELSE LOVE
MIGHT BE
LOVE AND LOSS
IN 1930s DENMARK
Based on the author’s family history,
this chronicle tells the story of
Marie, who grows up in the 1930s
on the small provincial island of
Langeland, in southern Denmark. It is
a childhood without money and with
violence on a daily basis.
Otto, an electrician, becomes her
ticket away from Langeland’s poverty.
The couple travel to Copenhagen to
create a new and better future, but
Marie finds that she can’t escape her
life in Langeland that easily, while the
future in the progressive city doesn’t
unfold as she had hoped.
PHOTO: LES KANER
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Born in 1965, MERETE PRYDS
HELLE debuted in 1990 as a novelist
with Imod en anden ro (Towards
PHOTO: ROBIN SKJOLDBORG
FOR BETTER
OR WORSE
“Merete Pryds Helle challenges the
unimaginative way the movies have
taught us to tell stories,” says writer
Pia Juul of the Danish Academy.
“Instead, she imitates life in a much
more refined way, where the point
of view changes, past and present are
mixed, and strict chronology breaks
away.”
THE AFTERMATH
OF A RAPE
In the centre of Copenhagen, a
young lawyer is dragged into an
entranceway and raped. She is able
to make her way back home to her
boyfriend and together they report
the crime, but their relationship is
changed forever. Through the eyes
of her boyfriend, we follow her
journey through the legal system up
to the day when she stands before
the judge in court. We experience
how she gradually disintegrates under
the scrutinizing gaze of the system,
but also how the narrator himself
becomes a victim of the rape, as
he rages, grieves and struggles to
understand, filled with a longing for
revenge. The Victims is an enthralling,
intense and thought-provoking
reading experience, a study of guilt,
resentment and victimization.
Born in 1970, MORTEN BRASK’s
debut Havet i Theresienstadt (Sea of
Theresienstadt, 2007), was nominated
for the Prix du Roman Fnac 2011 and
the Prix Chapitre du roman européen
2011. His second novel, William
Sidis perfekte liv (The Perfect Life of
William Sidis, 2011), went on to win
the Edoardo Kihlgren Award for
European Fiction 2014 as well as the
Italian Bottari Award 2015. In 2013,
Brask published En pige og en dreng (A
Girl and A Boy), which has sold more
than 25,000 copies in Denmark.
MORTEN BRASK
Ofrene (The Victims)
Politikens Forlag 2016, 209 pages.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Copenhagen Literary
Agency, Esthi Kunz, [email protected]
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Another Tranquility). She has
received several literary awards,
including the Copenhagen County
Cultural Award in 1997 and, in
2009, the Francophone Countries
Ambassadors Literature Award
for her novel Oh, Romeo. She also
received the Beatrice Prize in 2009.
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A DELICATE TOPIC
AND A DRIVEN
NARRATIVE
MERETE PRYDS HELLE
Folkets skønhed (The Beauty of the People)
Lindhardt and Ringhof 2016, 480 pages.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Lindhardt and Ringhof, Sune
de Souza Schmidt-Madsen, [email protected]. PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD
TO: France, Germany, Italy, Latvia
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BOOKS IN BRIEF / FICTION
family and doesn’t want to talk about
his past. But Heidi still falls head over
heels in love with him. His condition
makes climate change a bit of a bind
for Kenneth, so he’s keen to do his
bit. But what can individuals do? And
how far are they willing to go?
EUROPE TURNED
INSIDE OUT
THE REFUGEE JOURNEY
Møder med de danske forfattere (My
Meetings with Danish Authors).
In October 2015, Madame Nielsen
began a new Grand Tour of Europe,
travelling from ancient Greece all the
way to Denmark – on foot. Walking
alone, she falls in step with the ‘tide
of refugees’. From their perspective
she observes the changing
landscape, where pretty, dilapidated
or ambiguous. She shares their
exhaustion, the border crossings, and
the camps. And moving at a slower
pace, she notes the smaller details:
the garden gnomes, the road kill and
the children caught in no-man’s land.
She experiences a Europe turned
inside out, where capital cities appear
like provincial villages and hip lives
are strangely unaffected by what is
happening along the borders.
MADAME NIELSEN
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CHARLOTTE WEITZE, born 1974,
has had four collections of stories
and four novels published and two
radio plays aired. She has received
numerous awards and scholarships,
including Bogforum’s Debutant Prize
and the Danish Arts Foundation’s
three-year working grant.
CHARLOTTE WEITZE
CLIMATE CHANGE
AND THE ABOMINABLE
SNOWMAN
Den afskyelige (Big Foot) is a tale
of fanaticism and deep love, of
unsustainable CO2 emissions and the
individual responsibility. Heidi takes
a job in a hospital to be close to her
sister, Angelica, the victim – seven
years go – of the last-ever skiing
accident in the country. Nobody
knows what actually happened, but
Angelica went to meet somebody and
Heidi was sworn to secrecy.
Since then, climate change has
melted all the snow off Klaftafjeld. In
the hospital, Heidi meets Kenneth, a
patient in the sweat clinic. Over six
feet tall and wildly hirsute, he has no
Den afskyelige (Big Foot)
Samleren 2016, 250 pages.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency,
Jenny Thor, jenny_thor@gyldendalgroupagency.
dk PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: Bulgaria,
Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Russia
ECO-POLITICAL
SATIRE
PHOTO: LEA MEILANDT
MADAME NIELSEN. Since 2002
the Danish author Claus BeckNielsen has worked under the
name Das Beckwerk and in 2011 he
changed his name to Nielsen, while
also writing as Madame Nielsen.
Among the most praised of his novels
are Claus Beck-Nielsen (1963-2001) – a
biography (Gyldendal 2003) and The
Suicide Mission (Gyldendal 2005) for
which the author was nominated for
The Nordic Council Literature
Prize. In 2014 the author was once
again nominated for The Nordic
Council Literature Prize for Mine
Invasionen – En fremmed i flygtningestrømmen. Dannelsesroman (The Invasion
– A Stranger in the Flood of Refugees.
Bildungsroman)
Gyldendal 2016, 192 pages. FOREIGN RIGHTS:
Copenhagen Literary Agency, Anneli Høier,
[email protected] - Partial German sample
available. PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: France,
Norway, Spain, Sweden, US
“I think Charlotte Weitze is the only
writer capable of penning an ecopolitical satire and interweaving it
with a moving and sensual love story
about the effects of climate change
on an abominable snowman’s sweat
glands. If it all sounds a bit wild, that’s
because it is. Wild and wonderful.”
Louise Kønigsfeldt, editor
BOOKS IN BRIEF / NON FICTION
NON-FICTION
THE STORY OF
A SIMPLE DRAWING
NADIA PLESNER
Simple living - kamp og kunst fra en
campingvogn (Simple Living: Struggle and Art
from a Caravan)
Lindhardt & Ringhof 2015, 384 pages
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Lindhardt and Ringhof,
Sune de Souza Schmidt-Madsen, sune.
[email protected]
FILM RIGHTS: Good Company Films
PHOTO: THOMAS ANDEERSEN
A PERSONAL
STORY OF
TRIUMPH
AND ARTISTIC
FREEDOM
Born in 1981, NADIA PLESNER is
a Danish/Dutch painter who trained
at the Graphic Arts Institute in
Copenhagen and at the Gerrit Rietveld
Academie in Amsterdam. In 2008
she created her campaign, Simple
Living Committee, and was later
named Cosmopolitan’s Provocateur
of the Year Award. In 2011, Plesner
was nominated for the JCI Ten
Outstanding Young People’s Award.
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO?
“The book is an original mix of historical narrative, reporting and personal
reflection on our relationship with
ourselves, lust and existence.” Janne
Breinholt Bak, editor
LONE FRANK, born 1966, has a
PhD in neurobiology and writes about
science for Weekendavisen. She contributes to leading international publications and is a regular voice in debates
on science, technology and society on
Danish radio and television. She is the
author of the critically acclaimed and
award-winning books New Life, Klonede
Tigre (Cloned Tigers), Mindfield and My
Beautiful Genome, and has received
several awards for her ability to
impart knowledge.
LONE FRANK
Lystens pioner (The Pioneer of lust)
Gyldendal 2016, 224 pages.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group
Agency, Jenny Thor, jenny_thor@
gyldendalgroupagency.dk
PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: Germany,
Norway, the Netherlands, and the UK
The American psychiatrist Robert
Heath insisted that mental illness stems
from physical defects in the brain. In
the 1950s, he came up with the idea of
placing electrodes deep in the brain of
patients with schizophrenia, depression and epilepsy, and channelling
electricity through them. The results
were remarkable, but he went too far
when he tried to “cure” a gay man by
locking him up with a female prostitute and jolting his brain’s pleasure
centre with electricity. Heath may
have been written out of history, but
his method has been resurrected. New
pioneers now conduct experiments
with electrical stimuli to treat everything from depression
and anxiety to compulsive behaviour, anorexia
CONTROVERSIAL
and aggression. In Lystens
PSYCHIATRIST WANTED
pioner (The Pioneer of
TO USE ELECTRO-SHOCK
Lust), Lone Frank tells
ON GAYS
the fascinating story of
Heath’s rise and fall, and
identifies surprising links
PHOTO: ROBIN SKJOLDBORG
Hit by a speeding scooter in Amsterdam, art student Nadia Plesner
woke up three months later in a cold,
isolated caravan, deserted by her boyfriend and physically incapacitated.
Picking up an old newspaper, she was
struck by the discrepancy between a
whole page dedicated to Paris Hilton
and a tiny snippet covering the
genocide in Sudan. What begins as a
simple drawing sketched on a kitchen
door that day, six years later leads her
to The Hague where she successfully
defends artistic freedom and confronts
Louis Vuitton’s copyright infringement lawsuit. Film rights were sold
before publication.
with current research and how it might
pan out in the future.
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DANISH LITERARY MAGAZINE
CRIME
THE DARK SIDE OF THE BABY
BUSINESS
“I had to meet several of my sources
well away from Christiansborg
because the prospect of being seen
scared them out of their wits.” - Helle
Vincentz.
HELE VINCENTZ, born 1978,
is a journalist and author of the
bestselling Caroline Kayser
thrillers. Her new series features
anthropologist Sofie Munk.
HELLE VINCENTZ
Stjålne liv (Stolen Lives)
People’s Press 2016, 456 pages
FOREIGN RIGHTS: People Group Agency,
Louise Langhoff Koch, [email protected]
PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: France, Germany
and The Netherlands
PHOTO: CAMILLA STEPHAN
When inseminated ovaries disappear
from a fertility clinic, Sofie Munk is
sent to investigate. Mik Karlsen at
the Ministry of Justice is warned of a
suspect device at the airport. Without
knowing it, Sofie and Mik are both
working the same, deadly dangerous
case.
NO QUESTIONS ASKED
The prime minister is murdered, and
in Bangladesh a factory collapses
on top of hundreds of poor textile
workers. Communications Director
Palle Bengtson leaves his wife, career
and a corporate scandal and heads
for South America. This is a tale
of tough confrontations, and what
happens when you turn your back on
everything you know. “It is a wellwritten and relevant novel [...] It is
a dynamic story with much more to
offer than just good entertainment.”
Kristeligt Dagblad
PHOTO: LES KANER
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MORTEN HESSELDAHL, born
1964, is director of the Danish Royal
Theatre and the author of several
comic books and novels. In 2007, his
novel Drager over Kabul (Kites over
Kabul) was named “Danish thriller of
the year”.
MORTEN HESSELDAHL
Manden fra lavlandet (Man from the Lowlands)
Modtryk 2016, 282 pages.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Forlaget Modtryk, Nanna
Rørdam Knudsen, [email protected]
PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: France, Germany,
Norway, Sweden
CLASSIC CRIME IN
COPENHAGEN
In the fourth Lars Winkler crime
novel, friendships and betrayal are
central to a case when the body of the
HR director of the Tivoli Gardens
is found hanging from a swinging
balloon ride. The case is further
complicated by the attempted murder
of a suspect’s wife. Winkler learns
that those who hold the clues have
conflicting interests which take him
all the way back to a series of killings
in the 70s.
BOOKS IN BRIEF / CRIME
PHOTO: HAZEL THOMPSON
JACOB MELANDER was born in
1965. His 2013 crime debut Øjesten
(The House that Jack Built) was a
bestseller that sold to eight countries,
followed by Serafine (Scream of the
Butterfly) and De Berusedes vej (From
Her to Eternity).
JACOB MELANDER
Det bedste til mig og mine venner
(With a Little Help From My Friends)
Rosinante 2016, 400 pages.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency,
Jenny Thor, [email protected]
PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: Canada, Czech
Republic, Germany, Italy, Norway, Slovakia, The
Netherlands, US
Amina’s brother disappears from the
Iranian atomic program.
PHOTO: STINE HEILMANN
Born in 1971, LONE THEILS
worked as a Danish correspondent
in London for 15 years before
becoming a full-time author. Of
her 2015 debut novel, Pigerne fra
Englandsbåden (Fatal Crossing),
Berlingske wrote: “Sand is a heroine
one would gladly meet again.”
LONE THEILS
Den blå digters kone (The Blue Poet’s Wife)
Lindhardt og Ringhof 2016, 325 pages.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Nordin Agency, Lina Vozzi Salazar, [email protected] PREVIOUS TITLES
SOLD TO: Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia,
Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, UK
all they have to offer are a couple of
bizarre clues – a dismembered finger,
a cache of magic mushrooms and a
bloodied bathroom. The truth will
out, but only by circumventing the
police work and delving deep within
his psychiatric experiments, can Falk
discover the depths of the motive and
that revenge is imprinted on the brain.
Born in 1971, INGER WOLF
published her debut Sidespring (The
Affair) in 2000 and Sort Sensommer
(Dark Summer) in 2006, which won
the Danish Crime Academy Debutant
Award. Brændte sjæle (Burned Souls)
is the first in a new crime-science
thriller series.
INGER WOLF
NEW PSYCHIATRIC
DETECTIVE SERIES
NORA SAND SERIES
Brændte sjæle (Burned Souls)
People’s Press 2016, 300 pages.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: People Group Agency, Louise
Langhoff Koch, [email protected]
PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO: France, Germany,
The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden
When the police ask Psychiatrist
Christian Falk to assist them when
Anton Jørgensen is reported missing,
In Lone Theils’ second thriller, we
reacquaint ourselves with Globalt’s
correspondent Nora Sand. When
Nobel-prize winner Manash Ishmail
turns up at a refugee camp, he appeals
to Sand to find his wife Amina, a
search that leads to dangerous hiding
places. Sand has her own fears as
well, with the Danish security service,
tracking her every move when
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DANISH LITERARY MAGAZINE
COMICS
Du skal
slet ikke røre
mig, so!
Christian,
kom s…
68
PHOTO: ANNE-MARIE VANG
Udødelighed.
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CHRISTIAN VII STARS IN
EXCEPTIONALLY WELL
RECEIVED COMIC
In October 1766, aged just 17,
Christian VII married his English
cousin, Princess Caroline Mathilde.
The very young, psychologically
fragile king and his imported child
bride live separate, miserable lives
in Christiansborg – he the confused
figurehead of a supposedly absolute
monarchy, she a royal birth machine.
At the same time, in Altona, the royal
physician Johann Friedrich Struensee
is working away, trying to improve the
lot of the weakest in society, as well as
his own life. All three have their own
dreams of a better tomorrow.
“Working with Karoline has been
an absolute pleasure. As well as
being a huge talent with a unique
drawing style, she is extremely
disciplined and passionate (not to
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KAROLINE STJERNFELT
I morgen bliver bedre
(It Will Get Better Tomorrow)
Forlaget Cobolt 2015, 157
pages. FOREIGN RIGHTS:
Forlaget Cobolt, Pernille
Arvedsen, [email protected]
COMIC SENSATION
OF THE YEAR
mention wonderfully stubborn). This
exceptionally well received book
is already into a second print run
in less than three months.” Pernille
Arvedsen, editor.
“There is a clarity, a sharpness to
this book – at times even a virtuosity.
The characters are both heavily
caricatured and vividly realistic. It’s
the kind of stuff Will Eisner did.”
Jyllands-Posten
KAROLINE STJERNFELT, born
1993, is a graduate of Serieskolan
in Malmö. Her past works have
featured in a number of anthologies.
Stjernfelt’s solo project I morgen bliver
bedre (It Will Get Better Tomorrow)
consists of three volumes: The King,
The Queen and The Doctor.
The book was arwarded as one of the
season’s best books by The Danish
Arts Foundation.
BOOKS IN BRIEF / COMICS
FINAL CURTAIN ON
AMBITIOUS GRAPHIC
BIOGRAPHY
Danish comics really are enjoying a
golden age at the moment, with more
and more talented artists entering
the market. One of them is Halfdan
Pisket. Dane is the last part of his The
Cockroach Trilogy, in which we follow
the life of Pisket’s father – one of
those to do well out of the Danish
welfare system and a bit of a crook
down in Christiania. After his ex-wife
contacts him, having been badly
beaten by her new boyfriend, the
way is clear for him to reconnect
with his children. But balancing
family life with a life of crime proves
problematic.
HALFDAN PISKET
Dansker (Dane)
Fahrenheit 2016,
170 pages. FOREIGN
RIGHTS: Copenhagen
Literary Agency, Esthti
Kunz, [email protected]
PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD
TO: France, Mexico, The
Netherlands
“A MODERN MASTERPIECE
OF DANISH CARTOON ART”
BERLINGSKE
HALFDAN PISKET is a graduate of
the Royal Danish Art Academy. He
was awarded a three-year work grant
by the Danish Arts Foundation in
2015, and received the Ping Award
for best graphic novel in 2015.
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DANISH LITERARY MAGAZINE
THERE IS NO
FOR RADIC
Based on wide-ranging and richly detailed
source material, Jacob Sheikh’s book
Danmarks børn i hellig krig (Denmark’s
Children of Holy War) is the grim tale of more
than 100 Danish Muslims who have left the
country to fight as jihadists in Syria and Iraq.
They were all born and raised in
Denmark, but came from widely
different social, economic, religious
and ethnic backgrounds and
had widely different reasons for
making such a drastic choice. They
include Danish converts, children
of ethnically mixed immigrants,
secular Muslims and devout
believers. Some have psychological
issues, or are even mentally ill, while
others are seemingly well adjusted,
educated and have good jobs.
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National integration and social
policies offer few answers.
Denmark and Sweden have
different policies in these areas,
but recruits from both have joined
radical groups in Syria and Iraq.
However, the apparent lack of a
one-size-fits-all profile of who will
succumb to radicalism doesn’t
mean that there is no pattern.
Jakob Sheikh identifies one.
The boys involved were socially
insecure and vulnerable, which may
explain their taste for the sense of
solidarity and charismatic leaders
found in such circles.
Nonetheless, there is no actual
formula for extremism, and it may
well just have been an unfortunate
combination of circumstances that
led to their individual decisions to
devote their lives to holy war.
Exceptionally honest
personal stories
The book excels at telling personal
stories that bring the reader close to
the jihadists. It portrays five ordinary
Danes’ paths into extremism; Amir,
Lukas, Shiraz and the two 16-yearold girls from Skejby who left their
family and were dubbed the “terror
twins” by the media. Shiraz, born in
Copenhagen to Pakistani parents,
is known by the nickname “the
Spider”. He’s charming, garrulous
and is really good at reaching out
to young people who are seeking
JACOB SHEIKH
“With his new book, Danmarks børn i hellig krig
(Denmark’s Children of Holy War), journalist Jakob
Sheikh provides an accessible and fascinating tale of
the rise of a violent Islamist scene in Copenhagen.”
INFORMATION
Hailed for
his outstanding
knowledge of
radicalised
circles
O FORMULA
CALISATION
something in their lives. Lukas,
a frail kid from South Harbour in
Copenhagen, struggled with mental
problems, crime and a society
that had no place for him. He died
a martyr’s death, after which his
mother handed over all the relevant
material she could find to the
author. Amir and Jakob Sheikh grew
up together. Their fathers came
from the same part of Pakistan,
their parents divorced at roughly the
same time, and the two boys hung
out with the same types.
Sheikh is from a similar background
to the people he portrays, which
helps him understand their need to
explore religion in search of a depth
absent from ordinary, day-to-day
life. His background is his key to
connecting with people who are
otherwise extremely wary of surveillance by the intelligence services
and don’t like talking to outsiders.
The role of the welfare state
One of the common traits in the
book is that religion, initially at
least, solves some of the young
people’s problems – it alleviates
loneliness, enhances their social
esteem or lifts them out of a life
of crime. Sheikh stresses the
importance of early intervention
by the social services in stopping
vulnerable young people falling
for the seductive allure of radical
groups. The welfare state and its
range of social, economic and
educational provisions has a role
to play in providing alternatives to
radicalisation.
JAKOB SHEIKH, born 1987,
has a Danish mother and a
Pakistani father and has lived
all his life in Copenhagen. He is
a graduate of the Danish School
of Media and Journalism and the
American University in Beirut,
and has appeared as an expert in
radicalisation in Der Spiegel and
on the BBC, al-Jazeera, the Danish
Broadcasting Corporation and ABC
News (Australia). His articles on
radicalisation have been translated
into more than ten languages. He is
also spokesperson for Responsible
Press, which aims to raise
awareness about the role of the
press and responsibility in society.
He has received several awards,
e.g. the EU Commission Journalist
Award in 2012. In January 2016,
he was awarded the Berlingske
Foundation Journalist Award for
his “outstanding work informing
readers about integration, parallel
societies and radicalised milieux
in Denmark”.
Danmarks børn i hellig krig
(Denmark’s Children of Holy War)
Lindhardt og Ringhof 2015, 568 pages
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Lindhardt og Ringhof, Ulla
Ewald Stigel, [email protected]
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DANISH LITERARY MAGAZINE
When trying to describe award-winning author Anne-Cathrine
A
TASTE
FOR
U NUSUAL
THE MES
Riebnitzsky, the media often use words like “atypical” and
“unusual”. Why? Perhaps because her career as a successful
writer and the fact she is a graduate of the Danish AcaAdemy
of Creative Writing is completely at odds with her background
as a soldier and language officer in Afghanistan – and with her
anything-but-idyllic rural childhood...
PHOTO: LES KANER
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ANNE-CATHRINE RIEBNITZSKY
“Wonderfully well written. An absolutely splendid novel about
a man, a boy, a woman. The links between them are tenuous,
but their stories intermingle and together their thoughts and
actions create a real and meaningful world. A story full of real
suspense from Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Get it read!”
WEEKENDAVISEN ON DEN STJÅLNE VEJ (THE STOLEN ROAD)
No matter what she writes about,
Riebnitzsky’s readers are never
in any doubt about what’s on
her mind, whether it is women
in Afghanistan, Danish soldiers
stationed there or neglected
children. She is never afraid to
draw on her own professional
and personal experiences, and
her work often closely reflects
real life. As one reviewer put it,
some of the themes she tackles
are not the usual stuff of literary
family drama. Take, for example,
her second novel, the gritty
Forbandede Yngel (Slaughtered
Pigs), which mixes tense combat
in Afghanistan with quiet, subtle
struggles between parents and
children in the most peripheral
of Danish provinces. The novel
hammers home the fact that
Riebnitzsky is a writer with
something to say – and one who is
difficult to ignore. “A novel you’re
meant to swallow whole and be
shocked by,” as Politiken said. In
2013, the book earned Riebnitzsky
the Danish booksellers’ award, the
Golden Laurel.
Orkansæsonen og stilheden
(The Hurricane Season and the
Silence) also tackles big themes
like faith, justice, love, sorrow
and forgiveness. In this novel we
meet Monica, a happily married
church minister who regularly
talks to God, and Beate, who
was happily married but lost
her husband in a car crash for
which she feels partly to blame.
Over the span of a year, the two
friends cross paths with a whole
range of people – a teenage
Guatemalan girl who grew up
in a children’s home, a Mafia
gangster, a young hash dealer
and a policeman in love, with an
itchy trigger finger…
ANNE-CATHRINE RIEBNITZSKY,
born in 1974, graduated from
the Danish Academy of Creative
Writing in 1998 and qualified as
a language officer in Russian in
2003. In 2007 she was deployed
to Afghanistan, initially as a
soldier and later as an adviser to
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She made her publishing debut
in 2010 with a non-fiction book
about her work with Afghan
women, Kvindernes krig (The
Women’s War), which was
nominated for a Weekendavisen
readers’ prize. Her fiction debut
came two years later with Den
stjålne vej (The Stolen Road),
for which she received the
Bogforum Debutant Prize and
was nominated for readers’
prizes by both Weekendavisen
and the Danish Broadcasting
Corporation. Her second novel,
Forbandede Yngel (Slaughtered
Pigs) (2013), about a more-thanusually dysfunctional family, won
Politiken’s Novel Competition and
received the Danish booksellers’
prestigious Golden Laurel award.
Orkansæsonen og stilheden
(The Hurricane Season and the
Silence) is her third novel.
Orkansæsonen og stilheden
(The Hurricane Season and the Silence)
Politikens Forlag 2015, 320 pages
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Politiken Literary Agency,
Nye Guldberg, [email protected]
PREVIOUS TITLES SOLD TO:
France, Iceland, Norway, Sweden
“It makes for a gripping read [...] A story about all the things that
make life worth living, from the mild Danish summer to love
and comradeship. It shows that the horrors of family life can be
overcome but that the cost of doing so may be too high.”
JYLLANDS-POSTEN ON FORBANDEDE YNGEL (SLAUGHTERED PIGS)
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DANISH LITERARY MAGAZINE
UGLY DUCKLINGS:
ACQUIRING EDITORS
ON CHOOSING A
DANISH TITLE
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CHOOSING A DANISH TITLE
Acquiring editors know the feeling well:
they’ve fallen for a foreign title, but
translations are expensive, bestsellers in
the original language aren’t necessarily
bestsellers abroad and the cultural
context is difficult to transfer.
Susanne Juul is an acquiring
editor at Gaia Editions, located
in Southwestern France, which
specialize in Nordic, as well as
French, and Eastern European
literature. During the past two
years they have acquired several
Danish titles, such as Patriarkens
hændelige død (The Patriarch’s
Accidental Death) by Leif Davidsen
and Den skaldede detektiv (The
Bald Detective) by Anna Grue.
Most recently, they bought Jens
Andersen’s biography of Pippi
Longstocking author Astrid Lindgren,
Denne dag, et liv (This Day, A Life),
which they don’t plan to publish until
2018. The long wait, Juul notes, is
due to the fact that their translator
Alain Gnaedig is so busy with Danish
titles at the moment.
One of the issues that Juul often
faces is that non-fiction, in
particular, is difficult to transfer
because it is more likely, than fiction,
to be directed at a specific, national
audience, but Pippi Longstocking
So, what considerations do
acquiring editors make when
choosing a Danish title? This
article presents three publishers
who have all bought a Danish
title within the last six months.
They explain what drew them to a
specific title and why they think
it will appeal to a non-Danish
audience.
is well known internationally.
Juul’s acquisition of Andersen’s
book relied on finding an existing
common ground within the French
market and crossing over into
different audiences. “Most readers
in France know about the Pippi
Longstocking books, but few are
aware of Lindgren’s contributions
beyond her literary endeavours,”
says Juul. “The biography won’t
solely be directed towards fans of
her books, but to those who would
enjoy reading about the era in
which Lindgren lived and how she
managed to get the best out of her
life. It simply tells a fantastic life
story.”
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DANISH LITERARY MAGAZINE
Since founding Archipelago
Books in Brooklyn in 2003,
Jill Schoolman has gained a
reputation in the US as a publisher
of literature in translation, with
notable contemporary names
including Norwegian sensation
Karl Ove Knausgård. Most recently
Archipelago acquired the Danish
title En Ny Tid (A Change of Time)
by Ida Jessen, which they plan to
publish before 2018. Schoolman’s
acquisition of Jessen exemplifies
the role that translators and
translation networks can play in
spreading awareness of foreign
writers: Schoolman was initially
drawn to Jessen’s work because
Jessen is the Danish translator of
Alice Munro.
“Once I read the opening of Martin
Aiken’s beautiful English translation
of A Change of Time, I was sold,”
says Schoolman. “Ida Jessen’s
writing is understated, delicate and
perceptive. I gave myself over to
the narrator’s quiet adamance, to
her deep-rooted emotions, to the
relaxed rhythm that gives us room
to breathe, feel and think.”
In Stockholm, Teresa
Knochenhauer works with
translated fiction at Forum,
which first published classics
such as Thor Heyerdahl’s KonTiki, and have since worked with
Nobel Prize winners such as Toni
Morrison. Over the past year they
have published Danish author
Kim Leine’s Afgrunden (The Abyss)
and most recently they acquired
Mikkel Rosengaard’s Forestillinger
om Ana Ivan (The Premature Death
of Ana Ivan), which they plan to
publish in 2017. They are positive
that Rosengaard’s work has
international appeal because of its
unique and engaging story.
“Mikkel Rosengaard is an
interesting new voice in Danish
literature,” says Knochenhauer.
“The Premature Death of Ana Ivan
is a philosophical novel about
time and artistry, as well as an
epic story about truth, delusions
and our need for stories. Keeping
the novel on a high note as an art
form, Rosengaard also manages
to create a moving portrait of a girl
and her mysterious past.”
potential of titles, although their
common ground will naturally be
easier to find. Looking at what
Scandinavian countries are buying
from each other might well be
a good way of discovering new
Danish titles with appeal beyond
Scandinavia. In addition to this,
there are of course also awards
and prizes to consider, such as
The Nordic Council Prize and the
Danish Booksellers Award: The
Golden Laurel (De Gyldne Laurbær).
There are also new prizes such as
The Blixen Literary Award, or genre
prizes, that can lead editors in
the right direction. See our author
profiles for more information and
lots of great tips.
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The Nordic countries, although
having a shared culture and similar
languages, can differ widely in
their literary trends. Scandinavians
acquiring from each other still
have to consider the international
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EJAL PUBLISHING
KAREN BLIXEN
DEN AFRIKANSKE FARM
EJAL PUBLISHING
HELLE, HELLE
DETTE BURDE SKRIVES I NUTID
EJAL PUBLISHING
KIM LEINE
PROFETERNE I
EVIGHEDSFJORDEN
PUBLISHING HOUSE FAN NOLI
KRISTIAN BANG-FOSS
DØDEN KØRER AUDI
ARMENIA
GUITANK
NAJA MARIE AIDT
BAVIAN
BULGARIA
EMAS
JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN
JOURNAL 64
ERA
JONAS T. BENGTSON
ET EVENTYR
CROATIA
VBZ ZAGREB MLADINSKA
JOSEFINE KLOUGART
EN AF OS SOVER
CZECH REPUBLIC
ALBATROS
AGNETE FRIIS
BLITZ
BRANA
LEONORA CHRISTINA SKOV
HVOR INTET BRYDER VINDEN
DOBROVSKY
JENS HENRIK JENSEN
DE HÆNGTE HUNDE + DE
MØRKE MÆND + (TITEL 3)
EUROMEDIA
LONE THEILS
PIGERNE FRA
ENGLANDSBÅDEN
EUROMEDIA
LARS HUSUM
MIT VENSKAB MED JESUS
KRISTUS
KNIHA ZHIN
STEFFEN JACOBSEN
GENGÆLDELSEN
ESPERANTO
ESPERANTO CULTURE
WORLDWIDE
HELLE, HELLE
DETTE BURDE SKRIVES I
NUTID
ESPERANTO CULTURE
WORLDWIDE
PETER HØEG
FRØKEN SMILLAS
FORNEMMELSE FOR SNE
ESPERANTO CULTURE
WORLDWIDE
KIM LEINE
PROFETERNE I
EVIGHEDSFJORDEN
ESTONIA
EESTI RAAMAT
PETER HØEG
EFFEKTEN AF SUSAN
VARRAK PUBLISHERS
LONE THEILS
PIGERNE FRA
ENGLANDSBÅDEN + DEN BLÅ
DIGTERS KONE
FAORE ISLANDS
SPROTIN
KARIN DYHR OG MARIANNE
HOLMEN
GLASPIGEN
SPROTIN
JOHANNES V JENSEN
DEN LANGE REJSE (BIND 1+2)
FINLAND
BASAM BOOKS
LONE THEILS
PIGERNE FRA
ENGLANDSBÅDEN + DEN BLÅ
DIGTERS KONE
MINERVA KUSTANNUS
THOMAS RYDAHL
EREMITTEN
TAMMI
PETER HØEG
FORESTILLING OM DET
TYVENDE ÅRHUNDREDE
+ FRØKEN SMILLAS
FORNEMMELSE FOR SNE
FRANCE
ACTES SUD
HAMMER & HAMMER
PIGEN I SATANS MOSE
CHEYNE ÉDITEUR
SØREN ULRIK THOMSEN
ANTOLOGI 60 DIGTE
FOLIO SAGESSES
KAREN BLIXEN
THE SAILOR-BOY’S TALE +
THE YOUNG MAN WITH THE
CARNATION + THE PEARLS
SVEND BRINKMANN
Stå Fast (Stand Firm – a critique of the personal development mania)
The book everyone in Denmark is talking about! Svend
Brinkmann’s caustic and highly amusing face-off with
the self-help industry has been a fixture on the Danish
bestseller list since it was published over a year ago.
It has now sold 50,000 copies. Drawing partly on the
philosophical tradition of stoicism, Brinkmann presents
a seven-step alternative to the constant clamour for selfrealisation and development. Stand firm. Say no. Relax.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency, Jenny Thor, jenny_thor@
gyldendalgroupagency.dk. SOLD TO: Estonia, Finland, The Netherlands,
Norway, Sweden, UK.
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KRISTIAN BANG-FOSS
Døden kører Audi (Death Drives an Audi)
A sharp, humorous and heart-breaking road novel from
one of Denmark’s most talented young authors. WINNER
of the European Union Prize for Literature 2013. “Foss is a
competent stylist and a delicate narrator, but he especially
masters the difficult art of humour.” Frederiksborg Amts
Avis
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency, Jenny Thor, jenny_thor@
gyldendalgroupagency.dk. SOLD TO: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech
Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Macedonia, Norway,
Serbia, South Korea, Turkey.
GALLIMARD
KIM LEINE
AFGRUNDEN
PRÉSQUE LUNE
HALFDAN PISKET
DESERTØR
NOTABILIA
MADAME NIELSEN
DEN ENDELØSE SOMMER
PHÉBUS
CARSTEN JENSEN
DEN FØRSTE STEN
GERMANY
BERLIN VERLAG
ANNA GRUE
ITALIENSVEJ
BLANVALET
ERIK VALEUR
LOGBOG FRA ET LIVSFORLIS
ROWOHLT VERLAG GMBH
LONE THEILS
PIGERNE FRA
ENGLANDSBÅDEN
STIFTUNG LYRIK KABINETT
PIA TAFDRUP
TARKOVSKJIS HESTE
GREECE
METAIXMIO
LONE THEILS
PIGERNE FRA
ENGLANDSBÅDEN + DEN BLÅ
DIGTERS KONE
SAIXPIRIKON EDITIONS
INGER CHRISTENSEN
DET
HUNGARY
ITALY
CALCOGRAFIA “AL POZZO”
KAREN BLIXEN
THE GHOST HORSES
DEL VECCHIO EDITORE
KRISTIAN BANG-FOSS
DØDEN KØRER AUDI
DONZELLI EDITORE
INGER CHRISTENSEN
SOMMERFUGLEDALEN + DIGT
OM DØDEN
IPERBOREA
DAN TURELL
MORD I MARTS
MARSILIO
JESPER STEIN
BYE BYE BLACKBIRD + AKRASH
ANIMUS
JUSSI ADLER-OLSEN
ALFABETHUSET
SCRITTURAPURA
IDA JESSEN
EN NY TID
NAPKUT KIADO
ERLING JEPSEN
MED VENLIG DELTAGELSE
SCRITTURAPURA
JOSEFINE KLOUGART
EN AF OS SOVER
ICELAND
JAPAN
HANSER
MORTEN BRASK
WILIAM SIDIS PERFEKTE LIV
BÓKAÚTGÁFAN SÆMUNDUR
KIM LEINE
PROFETERNE I
EVIGHEDSFJORDEN
HAYAKAWA PUBLISHING
LONE THEILS
PIGERNE FRA
ENGLANDSBÅDEN
HEYNE
STEFFEN JACOBSEN
ET BJERG AF LØGNE
FORLAGID
HELLE, HELLE
HVIS DET ER
LATVIA
HINSTORFF VERLAG
JESPER CLEMMENSEN
FLUGTRUTE: ØSTERSØEN
URDUR
JANE AAMUND
JULIANE JENSEN +
OVEN VANDET
GOLDMANN
EVA MARIA FREDENSBORG
ÉN GANG MORDER
GUGGOLZ VERLAG
WILLIAM HEINESEN
ANTOLOGI 16 NOVELLER
WILLIAM HEINESEN
KEIN & ABER
DORTHE NORS
SPEJL, SKULDER, BLINK
OSBURG VERLAG
LASSE HOLM
ROMEREN + GRÆKEREN +
REPUBLIKANEREN
RANDOM HOUSE GERMANY
KAREN BLIXEN
MIT AFRIKA
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UGLA ÚTGÁFA EHF
ELSEBETH EGHOLM
SKJULTE FEJL & MANGLER
(DICTE 1)
INDIA
MEDIA PUBLICATION
KAREN BLIXEN
OUT OF AFRICA + SHADOWS ON
THE GRASS
ZVAIGZNE ABC PUBLISHERS
PETER HØEG
ELEFANTPASSERNES
BØRN + FRØKEN SMILLAS
FORNEMMELSE FOR SNE
MAKEDONIEN
BOJAN SAZDOV
ALEN MESKOVIC
UKULELE-JAM
THE NETHERLANDS
AMBO ANTHOS
LONE THEILS
PIGERNE FRA
ENGLANDSBÅDEN + DEN BLÅ
DIGTERS KONE
DE BEZIGE BIJ
LEONORA CHRISTINA SKOV
HVOR INTET BRYDER VINDEN
DE BEZIGE BIJ
ERIK VALEUR
LOGBOG FRA ET LIVSFORLIS
DE BEZIGE BIJ
CARSTEN JENSEN
DEN FØRSTE STEN
QUERIDO
MIKKEL ROSENGAARD
FORESTILLINGER OM ANA IVAN
SUBQ
HALFDAN PISKET
DESERTØR
NORWAY
ASCHEHOUG
ANE RIEL
HARPIKS + SLAGTEREN I
LISELEJE
AUDIATUR
JEPPE BRIXVOLD
FORBRYDELSE OG FREMGANG
CAPPELEN DAMM
DORTHE NORS
SPEJL, SKULDER, BLINK
CAPPELEN DAMM
ANNA GRUE
ITALIENSVEJ
FORLAGET PRESS
CARSTEN JENSEN
DEN FØRSTE STEN
GYLDENDAL NORSK FORLAG
MIKKEL ROSENGAARD
FORESTILLINGER OM ANA IVAN
PAX
INGER CHRISTENSEN
HEMMELIGHEDSTILSTANDEN
+ DET
SAMLAGET
AMALIE SMITH
I CIVIL
SAMLAGET
ASTA OLIVIA NORDENHOF
DET NEMME OG DET ENSOMME
POLAND
HELION
JENS HENRIK JENSEN
DE HÆNGTE HUNDE
HELION
JESPER STEIN
URO
RECENTLY SOLD
RUSSIA
ERIK VALEUR
Logbog fra et livsforlis (Logbook from a Lifewreck)
COMMENTARIES
HELLE, HELLE
RESTER
Logbook from a Lifewreck is a fable, a chronicle of our age and
a thriller all rolled into one. It is about children who grow
up with idiosyncrasies that are impossible to escape; about
spirits, death and the universe; about powerful politicians,
management gurus and media stars; and about the secrets
we all try to hide from ourselves – and from each other.
“The prize-winning journalist Erik Valeur, who four years
ago had his breakthrough as an award-winning fiction
writer with The Seventh Child, has done it again.” Berlingske
EKSMO
LONE THEILS
PIGERNE FRA
ENGLANDSBÅDEN
SLOVAKIA
IKAR
LARS HUSUM
MIT VENSKAB MED JESUS
KRISTUS
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Politiken Literary Agency, Nya Guldberg, nya.guldberg@
jppol.dk. SOLD TO: Germany, The Netherlands, World English Rights .
IKAR
LONE THEILS
PIGERNE FRA
ENGLANDSBÅDEN
SPAIN
EDHASA GRUPO
LONE THEILS
PIGERNE FRA
ENGLANDSBÅDEN
MINÚSCULA
MADAME NIELSEN
DEN ENDELØSE SOMMER
SOUTH KOREA
MUNHAKDONGNE PUB. CORP.
KRISTIAN BANG-FOSS
DØDEN KØRER AUDI
SWEDEN
ALBERT BONNIERS FÖRLAG
CARSTEN JENSEN
DEN FØRSTE STEN
BOKFABRIKEN AB
THOMAS RYDAHL
EREMITTEN
FORUM
MIKKEL ROSENGAARD
FORESTILLINGER OM ANA IVAN
FORUM
KIM LEINE
AFGRUNDEN
MODERNISTA AB
SIGNE GJESSING
UD I DET ULØSE
NORSTEDTS
JESPER STEIN
BYE BYE BLACKBIRD
LINDELÖWS FORLAG
AHMAD MAHMOUD
SORT LAND
ORDFRONT
DORTHE NORS
SPEJL, SKULDER, BLINK
MODERNISTA
URSULA SCAVENIUS
FJER
NORSTEDTS
LONE THEILS
PIGERNE FRA
ENGLANDSBÅDEN + DEN BLÅ
DIGTERS KONE
RASTLÖS FÖRLAG
MAJSE AYMO-BOOT
OVER OS HÆNGER EN
VIDUNDERLIG SOL
SADURA FÖRLAG
JULIA BUTSCHKOW
ABER DABEI
TURKEY
USA
GOA
MORTEN BRASK
WILIAM SIDIS PERFEKTE LIV
ARCHIPELAGO BOOKS
IDA JESSEN
EN NY TID
PINHAN PUBLISHING
HELLE, HELLE
DETTE BURDE SKRIVES I NUTID
OPEN LETTER
ASTA OLIVIA NORDENHOF
DET NEMME OG DET ENSOMME
UNITED KINGDOM
ARCADIA BOOKS
LONE THEILS
PIGERNE FRA
ENGLANDSBÅDEN + DEN BLÅ
DIGTERS KONE
DEDALUS LIMITED
CARSTEN JENSEN
DEN FØRSTE STEN
DEDALUS LIMITED
WILLIAM HEINESEN
TÅRNET VED VERDENS ENDE
+ NOATUN + DE FORTABTE
SPILLEMÆND
PUSHKIN PRESS
DORTHE NORS
SPEJL, SKULDER, BLINK
DANISH
NONFICTION
CZECH REPUBLIC
EUROMEDIA
PUK DAMSGÅRD
SER DU MÅNEN DANIEL
ESTONIA
PEGASUS PUBLISHERS
SVEND BRINKMANN
STÅ FAST
FINLAND
KAREN BLIXEN
Den afrikanske farm (Out of Africa)
Karen Blixen’s world-famous classic about her time on
a coffee farm in Kenya between 1914 and 1931. In it, the
29-year-old Blixen encountered everyday African farm life,
a far cry from international, upper-class circles in Nairobi.
The book has long since entered into the canon of world
literature, but continues to be published in new languages.
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency, Jenny Thor, jenny_thor@
gyldendalgroupagency.dk. SOLD TO: all over the world, most recently
Albania.
KIRJATAIMI
NASER KHADER
HJERTET BLØDER
FRANCE
FLEURUS JEUNESSE
ARNESEN & WIVEL
FLETNINGER
GAÏA ÉDITIONS
JENS ANDERSEN
DENNE DAG, ET LIV
GERMANY
HOFFMANN UND CAMPE
KRISTIAN DITLEV JENSEN
ORD I ORIENTEN
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PATMOS
MARIE HOLM
BUDDING- OG ANDRE
DIRRENDE DESSERTER
SPRINGER
IB TUNBY GULBRANDSEN OG
SINE NØRHOLM JUST
STRATEGIZING
COMMUNICATION. THEORY AND
PRACTICE
ULLMANN
HANNE JUUL
DIÆTISTENS LOW CARB
HUNGARY
EUROPA
PUK DAMSGÅRD
SER DU MÅNEN DANIEL
ITALY
STERLING & KUPFER
PUK DAMSGÅRD
SER DU MÅNEN DANIEL
JAPAN
KOBUNSHA
PUK DAMSGÅRD
SER DU MÅNEN DANIEL
THE NETHERLANDS
LEV / A.W. BRUNA
SVEND BRINKMANN
STÅ FAST
UITGEVERIJ AD. DONKER
CLAUS BUNDGÅRD
CHRISTENSEN
WAFFEN SS
ZNU
ANNE HJERNØE
SUNDE SALATER
ZNU
JANE FAERBER
LCHF SPIS DIG MÆT OG GLAD
PARADIGMESKIFTE FORLAG
CHARLOTTE RØRTH
JEG MØDTE JESUS
EDICIONES MAEVA
CHARLOTTE RØRTH
JEG MØDTE JESUS
POLAND
SOUTH AFRICA
MIND PUBLISHING
JESPER JUUL
ET ÆBLE TIL LÆREREN +
BONUSFORÆLDRE + FAMILIER
MED KRONISK SYGE BØRN
TAFELBERG
ARNESEN & WIVEL
FLETTEPIGERNES FAVORITTER
SONIA DRAGA
PUK DAMSGÅRD
SER DU MÅNEN DANIEL
WYDAWNICTWO ESPRIT
CHARLOTTE RØRTH
JEG MØDTE JESUS
PORTUGAL
PLATANO DIDACTA
PUK DAMSGÅRD
SER DU MÅNEN DANIEL
RUSSIA
AZBOOKA-ATTICUS PUBLISHING
GROUP
JENS ANDERSEN
DENNE DAG, ET LIV
HEMIRO LIMITED
ARNESEN & WIVEL
FLETNINGER
SLOVENIA
IKAR
PUK DAMSGÅRD
SER DU MÅNEN DANIEL
KNJIGA
JESPER JUUL
AGRESSION
SPAIN
ANAYA
FLEMMING ROSE
TAVSHEDENS TYRANNI
SWEDEN
FRI TANKE
PUK DAMSGÅRD
SER DU MÅNEN DANIEL
CHILDREN’S
BOOKS
ARGENTINA
PICTUS
LENE KAABERBØL
SKAMMER 1-4
BELGIUM
NATUR & KULTUR
ANETTE PREHN
HJERNESMARTE BØRN
LANNOO
LENE KAABERBØL
VILDHEKS 3
MARCUS FORLAG
MAJKEN MATZAU
STRESSFRI PÅ 12 UGER
CHILE
STUDENTLITTERATUR
ORLA VIGSÖ
KRISEKOMMUNIKATION
LIBERALIA EDICIONES
IDA JESSEN
CARL + DA CARL NÆSTEN VAR
OND + DA CARL BLEV RASENDE
+ DA CARL HAVDE DET SJOVT +
DA CARL NÆSTEN IKKE KUNNE
GÅ + DA CARL NÆSTEN SOV
I TELT
UNITED KINGDOM
CHINA
GROVE ATLANTIC
PUK DAMSGÅRD
SER DU MÅNEN DANIEL
KING-IN CULTURE
JAKOB MARTIN STRID
MIMBO JIMBO OG DEN LANGE
VINTER
RABEN&SJÖGREN
ARNESEN & WIVEL
FLETTEPIGERNES FAVORITTER
GRUB STREET
MARIE HOLM
BUDDING- OG ANDRE
DIRRENDE DESSERTER
POLITY
SVEND BRINKMANN
STÅ FAST
USA
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
JOAKIM GARFF
REGINES GÅDE
NORWAY
KING-IN CULTURE
SØREN LIND/HANNE
BARTHOLIN
HISTORIEN OM ABSOLUT
INGENTING
LIAONING CHILDREN’S
PUBLISHING HOUSE
KENNETH BØGH ANDERSEN
ANTBOY 1: TISSEMYRENS
BID + ANTBOY 2: OPERATION
SKÆBNESPIL + ANTBOY 3:
MASKEFALD + ANTBOY 4:
TISSEMYREN VENDER TILBAGE
+ ANTBOY 5: SLIM, SNOT OG
SUPERKRÆFTER + ANTBOY 6:
HELTE OG SKURKE
ALLER
ARNESEN & WIVEL
FLETTEPIGERNES FAVORITTER
CAPPELEN DAMM
FLEMMING ROSE
HYMNE TIL FRIHEDEN
CAPPELEN DAMM
ERIK SIGSGAARD
BØRN OG UNGES NEJ
JAKOB MARTIN STRID
Den utrolige historie om den kæmpestore pære
(The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear )
FLUX FORLAG
JENS-ANDRÉ P. HERBENER
NATUREN ER HELLIG
Children and adults around the world love the story of
two friends who find a seed that grows – overnight – into a
giant pear, and then embark on a fast-paced adventure in
search of the mysterious island where giant pears grow.
Just before it was published, the book sparked widespread
excitement at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Quite exceptionally,
it was bought by publishers in eight countries before the
illustrations were even finished.
NORSK GYLDENDAL
MARGRETHE HJERRILD (RED.)
LIGE MULIGHEDER
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Gyldendal Group Agency, Jenny Thor, jenny_thor@
gyldendalgroupagency.dk. SOLD TO: More than 15 countries.
DREYERS FORLAG
CLAUS BUNDGÅRD
CHRISTENSEN
WAFFEN SS
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RECENTLY SOLD
LENE KAABERBØL
CROATIA
Skammerens datter (Shamer Chronicles 1–4)
KATARINA ZRINSKI D.O.O.
JENS SIGSGAARD
PALLE ALENE I VERDEN
The series about Dina – who has inherited her mum’s
ability to shame, i.e. to see people’s darkest secrets when
she looks them in the eye – and her family has been
read by more than one million children, young people
and older readers. It has won several awards, both in
Denmark and abroad, has been translated into more than
25 languages and has been adapted into several plays and
a film.
FAROE ISLANDS
BÓKADEILD FØROYA
LÆRARAFELAGS
SVEND OTTO S.
BOGEN TIL DIG
BÓKADEILD FØROYA
LÆRARAFELAGS
SALLY ALTSCHULER
HR. BABELS TÅRN
BÓKADEILD FØROYA
LÆRARAFELAGS
LINE KYED KUNDSEN
K FOR KLARA 4: SOVE HOS
MALOU
BÓKADEILD FØROYA
LÆRARAFELAGS
ANDERS MORGENTHALER
PISSELET – TORSTEN OG
VERDENS LÆNGSTE SNOTTER
+ PISSELET – EN HUND EFTER
SELSKAB
GERMANY
BASTEI LÜBBE
JAKOB MARTIN STRID
DA LILLE MADSENS HUS
BLÆSTE VÆK + DEN
UTROLIGE HISTORIE OM DEN
KÆMPESTORE PÆRE
BELTZ
SIRI MELCHIOR
RITA OG KROKODILLE PÅ
FISKETUREN
BELTZ
NICOLE BOYLE RØDTNES
ELVERSKUD 3: SKYGGEHÆVN
EULENSPIEGEL
VERLAGSGRUPPE
JENS SIGSGAARD
PALLE ALENE I VERDEN
PETER HAMMER VERLAG
ANNETTE HERZOG
PSSST!
TULIPAN VERLAG
ANDREAS BRÆSTRUP
KIRSTEIN/RASMUS BREGNHØI
POUL ER IKKE TRÆT
UEBERREUTER VERLAG
SVEND OTTO S.
SIKKEN VOLDSOM TRÆNGEL
OG ALARM
ICELAND
FORLAGID
KIM FUPZ AAKESON
HEKS
HUNDAHOLMI
JENS SIGSGAARD
PALLE ALENE I VERDEN
FOREIGN RIGHTS: Copenhagen Literary Agency, Esthi Kunz,[email protected].
SOLD TO: The whole world, most recently Argentina, China and Taiwan.
ITALY
PERU
SWEDEN
CARLO GALLUCCI
LENE KAABERBØL
VILDHEKS 1
EDICIONES SM
THOMAS WINDING
MESTER OG ANDRE DYR
BERGHS FORLAG
KIM FUPZ AAKESON
VITELLO SKAL HAVE EN PAPFAR
MEXICO
SAGA BOOKS
THOMAS WINDING
JUL HELA ÅRET
BERGHS FÖRLAG
DANIEL ZIMAKOFF
MEZZI 5: NI MOD NI + MEZZI 6:
FARVEL TIL KINGO
LEETRA FINAL. S.A. DE C.V
SØREN LIND/HANNE
BARTHOLIN
HISTORIEN OM ABSOLUT
INGENTING
THE NETHERLANDS
UITGEVERIJ MOON
JAKOB MARTIN STRID
DEN UTROLIGE HISTORIE OM
DEN KÆMPESTORE PÆRE
NORWAY
ASCHEHOUG
JAKOB MARTIN STRID
LILLE FRØ
RUSSIA
CLEVER MEDIA GROUP
GLENN RINGTVED
FOR SENT!
CLEVER MEDIA GROUP
IDA-MARIE RENDTORF
RIDDER OSKAR OG KONG
VINTER
SOUTH KOREA
DHAMPUS PUBLISHING CO.
PER HOLM KNUDSEN
SÅDAN FÅR MAN ET BARN
CAPPELEN DAMM
LARS HENRIK AAGAARD
HVOR LANGT ER DER TIL
VERDENS ENDE
HYUN BOOKS
SØREN LIND/HANNE
BARTHOLIN
HISTORIEN OM ABSOLUT
INGENTING
CAPPELEN DAMM
ELLEN HOLMBOE
FILIP M. LUND - HEMMELIG
DETEKTIV (ALL BOOKS IN THE
SERIES).
HYUN BOOKS INC.
MARIANNE IBEN HANSEN/
HANNE BARTHOLIN
AXEL ELSKER BILER
GYLDENDAL NORSK FORLAG
KRISTINA AAMAND &
ELISABETH KIERTZNER
OMAR, BRUNO OG MUSSA OG
SAGEN OM DEN MYSTISKE
NUMSEVANDKANDE
HYUN BOOKS INC.
MATS LETÉN/HANNE
BARTHOLIN
FINN HERMAN
BERGHS FÖRLAG
PETER GOTTHARDT
DEN GYLDNE SKÅL BOG 3 +
DEN GYLDNE SKÅL BOG 4
OPAL BOKFORLAG
SALLY ALTSCHULER,
HR. BABELS TÅRN
FORLAGET HJULET
KIM FUPZ AAKESON
DET SATANS UKRUDT
TAIWAN
OMNIBOOK
LENE KAABERBØL
SKAMMER 1-4
HSIAO LU PUBLISHING
MAJBRITH ANDERSEN/JESPER
DELEURAN
DEN STORE NUMSEBOG
UKRAINE
CHITARIUM LIMITED
JAKOB MARTIN STRID
DEN UTROLIGE HISTORIE OM
DEN KÆMPESTORE PÆRE
VIGMOSTAD & BJØRKE
JAKOB MARTIN STRID
MIMBO JIMBO OG DEN
LANGE VINTER + DEN
UTROLIGE HISTORIE OM DEN
KÆMPESTORE PÆRE
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funds to cover the cost of printing and production
for foreign publishers wishing to publish Danish
illustrated children’s books in translation.
Publishers can apply for a set grant of 1,000 euros.
There are two annual application deadlines.
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The fund is open to Nordic publishers wishing to
publish a work translated from Danish to a Nordic
language. Support for translations into Danish
must be sought from within the country in which
the respective work was originally published. The
funds for Nordic translations are distributed on
behalf of Nordic Culture Point’s Culture and Art
Programme under the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Internordic production grants can be applied for
under the fund for Translation and Production.
There are three annual application deadlines.
LITERARY EXCHANGE FUND
Support may be provided to defray travel
expense in connection with a Danish author’s
/ illustrator’s participation in literary festivals,
readings and publication events abroad, if there is a
formal invitation to promote a publication. Support
may be provided to foreign authors travelling to
Denmark on the same basis. In addition travel
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grants can also be awarded translators of Danish
literature to a meeting with the Danish author.
Danish authors and illustrators can apply for travel
costs in connection with residencies abroad and
translators of Danish literature in connection with
residencies in Denmark.
There is no application deadline, but trips must
not have started at the time the application is made.
Applications will be processed as quickly as practicable
within a month.
LITERARY EVENTS AND MARKETING ABROAD
Subsidies for literary events and marketing
of Danish literature abroad. Applications for
subsidies are accepted from foreign publishers,
diplomatic representations abroad, cultural
institutions and others who wish to promote
and increase knowledge about Danish literature
outside Denmark.
There are two annual application deadlines.
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