Henrik Nordbrandt Comments

1. Henrik Nordbrandt was born (21 March 1945) in Frederiksberg, a Copenhagen suburb. He studied Chinese, Turkish and Arabic at the University of Copenhagen, but ever since his debut in 1966 he has worked as a poet, novelist and essayist. Although a Danish, he has spent much of his life in Mediterranean countries such as Greece, Turkey and Spain, and this is said to have had an influence on his writing.

2. He was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2000 for the poetry collection' 'Drømmebroer' ('Dream Bridges') . In 'Pjaltefisk' ('Seadragon',2005) he experiments with sonnet and haiku forms. Alongside numerous collections of poetry, he has also published crime fiction, children's books and even a Turkish cookery book.