Thorkild Hansen

Thorkild Hansen ( * January 9, 1927; † 4 February 1989) was a Danish writer who was awarded the Literature Prize of the Nordic Council for a trilogy of novels about the Danish slave trade in 1971 and especially by his 1979 published three -volume work on the post-war trials of the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun was known.

Life

After schooling Hansen began in 1945 a study of literary history at the University of Copenhagen in 1947 and gave his debut novel with a book on the Danish writer Jacob Paludan. In the following years he worked as a journalist at the tabloid Ekstra Bladet, but next published several other books. It had its first major success with his 1962 novel, Det lykkelige Arabia ( German title: Journey to Arabia, 1965) on the Arabia Expedition by Carsten Niebuhr and received this 1963 Søren - Gyldendal price.

Kyst for his trilogy of novels about the Danish slave trade with the titles Slavernes (1967 ), Slavernes skibe (1968) and Slavernes øer (1970 ) him the Literature Prize of the Nordic Council in 1971 awarded. His 1969 book published Jens Munk about the Danish-Norwegian explorer and navigator Jens Munk was released in 1974 for the first time in German translation at the VEB Verlag Hinstorff Rostock.

Another big success was in 1978 under the title Processen mod Hamsun published three-volume biography of the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, in which he is particularly concerned with the trials of Hamsun after the Second World War because of his collaboration with the German occupying forces and Hamsun 's recent book On overgrown paths addressed. The content was filmed in 1996 under the title Hamsun with Max von Sydow in the title role, with the factory in Denmark, but also in other countries in readers and literary critics rated differently, has also been criticized to some extent.

More Releases

More written by Thorkild Hansen books were:

  • He remains Stilhed (1953 )
  • Pause Signaler (1959 )
  • Syv seglsten (1960 )
  • En kvinde ved en flod (1961 )
  • De søde piger (1974 )
  • Course mod solnedgangen (1982 )
  • Søforhør (1982)
  • Et Paris atelier i I- II ( posthumously, 1990).
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