Villy Sørensen
Villy Sørensen ( born January 13, 1929 in Frederiksberg, † December 16, 2001 in Copenhagen) was a Danish novelist, philosopher, translator, journalist and literary critic.
Biography
Sørensen received his high school diploma in 1947 at the Copenhagen Vestre Borgerdyd school. He then studied at the universities of Copenhagen and Freiburg philosophy and psychology, but his studies broke the 1953 financial statements from (1979, however, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen ). In this year he also published his literary debut SAERE Historier, a collection of fantastic short stories. SAERE Historier won several awards and is regarded by many critics as the beginning of literary modernism in Denmark.
In the following years Sørensen lived in Hvidovre and worked as a journalist. In 1959 he published the magazine Vindrosen with Klaus Rifbjerg. He also published critical cultural and philosophical writings, essays, books and other prose collections. In 1965 he became a member of the Danish Academy. Sørensen died in 2001 in Copenhagen and was buried in the cemetery of Taarbæk.
Work
Sørensen considered the most important Danish philosopher of the 20th century. He was influenced by the existentialism of Martin Heidegger, Marxism and Sigmund Freud. His stories are compared with those of Franz Kafka. Sørensen's importance is also reflected in the fact that his work has been partially translated into several languages. Among the works that have been translated into Danish by Sørensen, including Grimm's Fairy Tales and The Castle and The Judgement by Franz Kafka. He also gave newly published among other works of Herman Bang and Søren Kierkegaard.
For his literary work, he has received numerous awards, including the Literature Prize of the Nordic Council, the most important award for writers from the Nordic countries.