As a teenager, I loved reading about the grand and wild lives authors seemed to lead. Literary history overflows with these larger-than-life wordsmiths and life artists: F. Scott Fitzgerald with his Zelda, intoxicated by champagne, […]
The ambulance drove us through the sleeping city. The windows of the houses were black and shut. It was raining, and the blue lights on the roof flashed coldly against the wet asphalt. On the […]
I have a confession. I am a snob. Not the kind of snob one might usually think of, but an arrogant word snob—someone who haughtily wrinkles their nose at inferior words, rejecting them like the […]
Published in the magazine for the Danish National Association for Loss of infantsMorten Brask lost his twins in April 2000. One year has passed. What are his reflections? How does a father and a man […]
It all begins in a small cell at Vestre Prison. On the floor lies 25-year-old Moroccan Faycal Caaban. He is serving a sentence for armed robbery. Yesterday, he visited the prison doctor complaining of abdominal […]
We were seated in vintage 1940s armchairs on a stage at the Skagen Literary Festival. Three authors from different generations, each of us had published a novel that year about World War II. The veteran […]
Some books stay inside you for many years. Some of them are never written. Maybe because others push their way to the front. Or because you outgrow them. Or simply because you don’t dare to […]
It happened a few days ago. I had an inkling that it was coming, but I had ignored all the signs. At first, I thought that if I just kept going, confronted it, and kept […]
“It was during the days when I walked around starving in Copenhagen, this wondrous city that no one leaves without being marked by it.” – “But that was how Copenhagen was in those early days, […]
