Books from Denmark
112 popular danish books
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The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world.
All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Europe Challenge" were written by authors from Denmark.
Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.
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According to the Law : Four Accounts of Mankind by Solvej Balle EN
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Short stories on obsession. A doctor is obsessed with cutting up a body in just the right manner, a physicist to experience the state of nothingness, a woman to grasp the essence of pain, and a painter to fuse with the object she is painting. By a Danish writer.
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Anger Is My Middle Name : A Memoir by Lisbeth Zornig Andersen EN
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An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage that helped a girl escape the darkness of a harrowing childhood. Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were bounced between foster care and state-run institutions, then back again to their chemically dependent mother and sadistic stepfather. For Lisbeth, it was a childhood without perimeters. It was blighted by poverty, sexual abuse, neglect, betrayal, and further victimization by the broken Danish social services system that forced Lisbeth to live whe... continue
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Babette's Feast by Karen Blixen EN
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These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, ‘Babette’s Feast’, which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast of a lifetime. There is also a real-life Prospero and his Ariel in ‘Tempests’, a mysterious pearl-fisher in ‘The Diver’ and a brief, tragic encounter in ‘The Ring’. All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last t... continue
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Beginning in the middle of crisis, then accelerating through plots that grow stranger by the page, Naja Marie Aidt's stories have a feel all their own. Though they are built around the common themes of sex, love, desire, and gender, Aidt pushes them into her own desperate, frantic realm. In one, a whore shows up unannounced at a man's apartment, roosts in his living room, and then violently threatens him when he tries to make her leave. In another, a wife takes her husband to a city where it is women, not men, who are the dominant sex-but was it all a hallucination when she finds herself tied ... continue
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Between the Stops by Sandi Toksvig EN
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Between the Stops is a sort of a memoir, my sort. It's about a bus trip really, because it's my view from the Number 12 bus (mostly top deck, the seat at the front on the right), a double-decker that plies its way from Dulwich, in South East London where I was living, to where I sometimes work at the BBC in the heart of the capital. It's not a sensible way to write a memoir at all, probably, but it's the way things pop into your head as you travel, so it's my way. From London facts including where to find the blue plaque for Una Marson, 'the first black woman programme maker at the BBC', to di... continue
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Blue Notes by Anne Cathrine Bomann EN
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How much grief is too much? How far should we go to avoid pain? From the author of the international bestselling novel Agatha comes a literary thriller about grief, love, science, and societal norms. A Danish university research group is finishing its study of a new medicine, Callocain: the world's first pill for grief. But psychology professor Thorsten Gjeldsted suspects that someone has manipulated the numbers to hide a disturbing side effect. When no-one believes him, he teams up with two young students to investigate: Anna, who has recently experienced traumatic grief herself, and Shadi, w... continue
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Butterfly Valley : A Requiem by Inger Christensen EN
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Inger Christensen, often cited as a Nobel contender, is one of Europe's most revered poets. Winner of the Nordic Prize of the Swedish Academy and the Austrian State Prize for Literature, she is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking work Det (It), a cycle of poems published in 1969. Her first book published in the U.S., alphabet (New Directions, 2001), met with a tremendous response: "Seductive," said Boston Review; "A visionary reincarnation of the natural world in the atomic age," wrote Chicago Review. Butterfly Valley: A Requiem collects four medium-length works, each startling for its b... continue
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Bye bye blackbird : krim by Jesper Stein NO
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Visepolitimester Axel Steen blir innhentet av fortiden da han får en telefon fra Kriminalteknisk Center. En DNA-prøve som er tatt i forbindelse med en voldtektssak matcher DNA fra den såkalte svarttrost-saken, et uoppklart seksualdrap fra 2004. Endelig får Axel Steen sjansen til å løse saken som har ridd han som en mare siden den gang, og som i sin tid ødela både ekteskapet hans og nesten tok livet av han. Han starter jaken på det som skal vise seg å være en sadistisk serievoldtektsforbryter. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.
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Cabeza de Perro by Morten Ramsland ES
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Esta divertida y originalísima novela sobre una saga familiar escandinava constituyó el acontecimiento editorial del año 2005 en Dinamarca, donde además de obtener un notable éxito de público —más de cien mil ejemplares vendidos— fue galardonada con los premios más importantes, entre ellos Autor del Año, Libro del Año y el Golden Laurel, concedido por los libreros de aquel país. Después de pasar unos años en Ámsterdam intentando abrirse camino como pintor, Asger regresa a Dinamarca para despedirse de su abuela Bjørk, que está a punto de morir. De esta manera, el joven se convierte en depositar... continue