List of Danes - Writers

Writers

Main article: List of Danish writers
  • Jussi Adler-Olsen, (1950–), novelist
  • Hans Christian Andersen, (1805–1875), Fairy Tales
  • Jens Immanuel Baggesen, (1764–1826)
  • Karen Blixen (aka. Isak Dinesen), (1885–1962), author
  • Georg Brandes, (1842–1927)
  • Stig Dalager, poet, playwright and novelist (born 1952)
  • Tove Ditlevsen, (1918–1976), poet and author
  • Jens Fink-Jensen, (1956–)
  • Karl Gjellerup, (1857–1919), author and Nobel Prize laureate,
  • Piet Hein, (1905–1996)
  • William Hillcourt, (1900–1992, born Vilhelm Hans Bjerregaard Jensen), prolific writer for the Boy Scouts of America
  • Ludvig Holberg, (1684–1754), dramatist, historian, essayist and playwright
  • Peter Høeg, author (1957–)
  • FP Jac, (1955–2008), poet
  • Jens Peter Jacobsen, (1847–1885), novelist, poet and translator
  • Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, (1873–1950), novelist and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Thit Jensen, (1876–1957) writer and worker for women's suffrage
  • Hans Kirk, (1898–1962), author
  • Margrethe Lasson, (1659–1738), the first female novelist.
  • Queen Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark
  • Kaj Harald Leininger Munk, (1898–1944), dramatist
  • Martin Andersen Nexø, (1869–1954), writer
  • Tor Nørretranders, (1955–), science popularizer
  • Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger, (1779–1850)
  • Henrik Pontoppidan, author and Nobel Prize laureate
  • Jacob Riis, (1849–1914), photographer, journalist and social activist in USA
  • Carl Erik Soya, (1896–1993), author, playwright, poet, satirist
  • Villy Sørensen, (1929–2001), author
  • Dan Turéll, (1946–1993), author
  • Pia Tafdrup, (1952–), poet
  • Klaus Rifbjerg, (1931), author
  • Peter Seeberg, (1925–1999), novelist and playwright

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