Dorrit Willumsen

Dorrit Willumsen ( born August 31, 1940 in Copenhagen) is a Danish writer.

Life

Willumsen was born in 1940 in Copenhagen's Nørrebro. After her graduation in 1960 she worked in an office, a library, the art market and in a laboratory before 1965 with their first release, the short story collection Knagen, emerged. Since then published of her numerous novels and Roman biographies, collections of short stories, plays and poems.

In German-speaking Willumsen was particular with its Roman Biography Bang. En roman om Herman Bang (1996/1997; German in 1998 as Bang ) known mainly coming back to life fate of decades of police persecution and ostracism of the Danish writer and journalist Herman Bang ( 1857-1912 ) as a homosexual in Denmark and in all European countries he visited or in which he tried to gain a foothold, pointing. 1997 Willumsen for Bang was awarded the Literature Prize of the Nordic Council.

Willumsen is married to the poet and playwright Jess Ørnsbo since 1963; they have the common goals Ørnsbo son (born 1970 ), who is also a poet. Willumsen lives in Vesterbro, Copenhagen.

Awards (selection)

Works

Works on German

  • Buck up, Snow White. Novel, Benziger, Zurich and Cologne, 1973, ISBN 3-545-36198-5
  • Marie. A novel about the life of Madame Tussaud, Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock, 1987, ISBN 3-356-00069-1
  • Sigh, heart. Novel, Hinstorff, Rostock, 1990, ISBN 3-356-00310-0
  • Bang. Novel, Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-378-00611-0 as TB in the Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7466-1669-7
Nordic Council's Literature Prize Grand Prize of the Danish Academy Integrated Authority File
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