As a teenager, I loved reading about the grand and wild lives authors seemed to lead. Literary history overflows with these larger-than-life wordsmiths and life artists: F. Scott Fitzgerald with his Zelda, intoxicated by champagne, […]
The ambulance drove us through the sleeping city. The windows of the houses were black and shut. It was raining, and the blue lights on the roof flashed coldly against the wet asphalt. On the […]
One of my best moments. Winner of Bottari Lattes Grinzanis literary award 2015 for the novel: “The Perfect Life of William Sidis” (La vita perfetta di William Sidis). The price ceremony took place at the medieval […]
I have a confession. I am a snob. Not the kind of snob one might usually think of, but an arrogant word snob—someone who haughtily wrinkles their nose at inferior words, rejecting them like the […]
Published in the magazine for the Danish National Association for Loss of infantsMorten Brask lost his twins in April 2000. One year has passed. What are his reflections? How does a father and a man […]
Photographs have become such a natural part of our worldview that we rarely give them a second thought when we see them. Perhaps we register the content of an advertisement, or our curiosity might be […]
It all begins in a small cell at Vestre Prison. On the floor lies 25-year-old Moroccan Faycal Caaban. He is serving a sentence for armed robbery. Yesterday, he visited the prison doctor complaining of abdominal […]
We were seated in vintage 1940s armchairs on a stage at the Skagen Literary Festival. Three authors from different generations, each of us had published a novel that year about World War II. The veteran […]
Some books stay inside you for many years. Some of them are never written. Maybe because others push their way to the front. Or because you outgrow them. Or simply because you don’t dare to […]
It happened a few days ago. I had an inkling that it was coming, but I had ignored all the signs. At first, I thought that if I just kept going, confronted it, and kept […]
The Swiss based publisher, Nagel Und Kimsche, a part of the large German publishing house, Hanser Verlag, now published The perfect Life of William Sidis. The german tale is, of course, Das Perfekte Leben des […]
A novel about Denmark, Europe, happiness and the end of the world. Three months after his French wife’s cremated body was found in a summer cabin, Daniel Fischer wakes and discovers that all sounds in […]
“It was during the days when I walked around starving in Copenhagen, this wondrous city that no one leaves without being marked by it.” – “But that was how Copenhagen was in those early days, […]
Winner of Edoardo Kihlgren first prize for European literature in 2014. Winner of the international Bottari Lattes prize for literature in Italy. Nominated for the literary prize “PREMIO LETTERARIA” in the category best novel translated […]
The Italian version of Morten Brask’s The perfect Life of William Sidis has been awarded with the first prize of Edoardo Kihlgren opera prima per la letteratura europea in Milan 2014. The novel, now in […]
Read Danish version here On January 27, 1945, a unit of Soviet soldiers approached the Auschwitz concentration camp. They drove through the main gate, where the words Arbeit Macht Frei were welded onto the wrought iron arch. […]
The Los Angeles and New York based movie production company, Ditlev Films, just acquired the options on the novel The perfect Life of William Sidis. The company’s two seasoned executive producers Christian Ditlev and Dan Hoffmann […]
“We believe film is one of the most modern and economical tools for mass influence. Therefore, a government cannot leave film to its own devices.” — Propaganda minister Goebbels The propaganda medium the Nazis deemed […]
For seventeen years Anja Fonseca kept a painful secret. Outwardly she was the always smiling weather host at DR’s channels. When the media wrote about her, they portrayed her as the beautiful and successful woman […]
William Sidis himself never travelled outside the United States during his lifetime. Now he is going to Europe. The perfect Life of William Sidis is sold to the French publishing house, Presses de la Cité, […]
University of Copenhagen, eight He sees her for the first time at a lecture. She talks about a she has carried since early childhood, a pain which can only be healed the day she has […]
The perfect Life of William Sidis was published in december 2012 in Greece by the major publishing house, Kedros Publishing, based in Athens. The novel is translated by Leo Kalyvornas. Read about the novel in […]
Den 27. januar 1945 nærmede en deling sovjetiske soldater sig koncentrationslejren Auschwitz. De kørte ind gennem hovedporten, hvor ordene Arbeit Macht Frei var svejset fast til portens støbejern og ganske kort tid efter, så de […]
The novel has been honored with nominations for the Prix du Roman Fnac and was shortlisted for the Prix Chapitre du Roman Européen.
The perfect Life of William Sidis is now published by the South Korean publishing group Moonhak Soochup Publishing Co., Ltd. / (주)문학수첩 The novel has been published in several European countries, and this is the […]
One summer night in central Copenhagen a young lawyer is attacked. A stranger pulls her into a backyard and rapes her brutally. She manages to get home to her boyfriend in a state of schock. […]
Det var i den tid hvor jeg gik omkring og sultede i København, denne forunderlige by som ingen forlader uden at være mærket af den. Men det var sådan København var i de tidlige dage, […]
I mine teenageår elskede jeg at læse om det store og vilde liv som forfatterne levede. Litteraturhistorien vælter jo over med disse larger than life pennesvingende livskunstnere: Scott Fitzgerald med sin Zelda, bedøvet af champagne, faldende […]
Nogle bøger ligger inde i en i mange år. En del af dem bliver aldrig skrevet. Måske fordi andre presser sig på. Eller man vokser fra dem. Eller fordi man ikke tør skrive dem. Den […]
Vi sad i gamle lænestole fra 1940’erne på en scene ved Skagens litteraturfestival. Vi var tre forfattere fra hver vores generation som dette år havde udgivet en roman om 2. Verdenskrig. Nestoren var Klaus Rifbjerg, der […]
University of Copenhagen, eight He sees her for the first time at a lecture. She…
A novel about Denmark, Europe, happiness and the end of the world. Three months after…
For seventeen years Anja Fonseca kept a painful secret. Outwardly she was the always smiling…
One summer night in central Copenhagen a young lawyer is attacked. A stranger pulls her…
