Fiction writer, essayist, translator and teacher. He was best known for writing the Copenhagen Quartet—four independent novels, each set in a different season in Copenhagen, that won the Dan Turel Prize in 2016. Prior to that, he worked as head of the international department of the Danish Medical Association, Managing Editor of Danish Medical Bulletin, and from 1976 to 2004 as a translator for the Danish Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims, now known as the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRC). While in the latter capacity, he traveled extensively worldwide and completed his Master of Fine Arts in Writing degree at Vermont College (1983 to 1985) and his Ph.D. in American literature at the University of Copenhagen (1985 to 1988).
Fiction writer, essayist, translator and teacher. He was best known for writing the Copenhagen Quartet—four independent novels, each set in a different season in Copenhagen, that won the Dan Turel Prize in 2016. Prior to that, he worked as head of the international department of the Danish Medical Association, Managing Editor of Danish Medical Bulletin, and from 1976 to 2004 as a translator for the Danish Rehabilitation Center for Torture Victims, now known as the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRC). While in the latter capacity, he traveled extensively worldwide and completed his Master of Fine Arts in Writing degree at Vermont College (1983 to 1985) and his Ph.D. in American literature at the University of Copenhagen (1985 to 1988).
Bio by: anglobrat
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