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Klaus Rifbjerg

Died in 2015

Klaus Rifbjerg was born in Copenhagen in 1931 and grew up on the island of Amager, the son of two schoolteachers. He studied English and literature in Copenhagen and for a year at Princeton, without finishing. With Villy Sørensen he edited the magazine Vindrosen from 1959 to 1963, joined the Danish Academy in 1967 and received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1970 for Anna (jeg) Anna. A poet, novelist, playwright and screenwriter, he published some one hundred and seventy-five books. He died in Copenhagen in 2015.

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