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Tom Kristensen

Died in 1974

Tom Kristensen was born in London on 4 August 1893 to Danish parents; his family, of working-class background, moved to Copenhagen when he was three. He studied Danish and English at the University of Copenhagen, graduating the year before his first collection of poems, published in 1920, and in 1923 joined the daily Politiken as a literary critic, a job he held for many years. Poet, novelist, essayist and traveller, he ended his life on the island of Thurø, near Svendborg, where he died on 2 June 1974.

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