Two newly translated novels exploring solitude, regret and lives not led are part of a compelling current wave of work from Danish female writers
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Lea Korsgaard, a Danish journalist and author, sets out to see all the butterflies of Denmark, discovering the charm and fragility of nature
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Think you know Hans Christian Andersen? Four experts pick his weirdest fairy tales to read this Christmas.
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Danish government has announced it will abolish a 25% sales tax on books, in an effort to combat a "reading crisis"
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The prolific Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen died 150 years ago, yet fairy tales like ‘The Little Mermaid’ and ‘The Ugly Duckling’ still move readers to this day
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Olga Ravn on her new hybrid novel about maternal ambivalence, her debt to Doris Lessing, and attempting to read Freud aged ten
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Nedim Yasar, a former gang leader who had turned his back on crime, was shot dead in Copenhagen just as a book about his life was published
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Danish ex-gangster shot dead on day his memoir on leaving criminal past was launched
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The young queer writer who became Greenland’s unlikely literary star
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