 | MA in Literature, Danish writer of novels, plays, essays and travelogues. A number of his works are published in German, French and English, e.g. Winter im Morgengrauen, L’Anatomie du bourreau and Les Pièges de la Culture. He has with Prof. Frederik Stjernfelt written extensively about the wars in the Balkans and multiculturalism and multiculturalist discourse. His latest work – The Trial against Malaparte – is to be staged in Denmark and Switzerland next year. It is a play about the meeting between the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte and Hans Frank, Hitlers General Governor in wartime Poland. His travelbooks deals with utopian political movements – from the history of the Khmer Rouge revolution in Cambodia to the national-christian revival in postwar Serbia. |
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