Karin Beate "Linn" Ullmann is a Norwegian author and journalist. A prominent literary critic, she also writes a column for Norway's leading morning newspaper and has published six novels.
Alex Riel is a Danish jazz and rock drummer. His first group Alex Riel/Palle Mikkelborg Quintet won Montreux Grand Prix Award at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1968 and it was published in Billboard's June 1968 edition. He is married to the writer Ane Riel.
Matias Faldbakken is a Norwegian artist and writer. Faldbakken studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bergen and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. He is the son of the author Knut Faldbakken and brother of film director Stefan Faldbakken.
Lise Nørgaard was a Danish journalist and writer known for her precise and often humorous portrayals of Danish cultural life. Nørgaard wrote novels, compilations of essays and short stories. The memoir of her childhood, Kun en pige, became a bestseller in 1992 and is considered her masterpiece. The work was adapted into a feature film in 1995.
Karen Margrethe "Kamma" Rahbek, née Heger was a Danish writer, salonist and lady of letters.
Bente Clod is a Danish poet and prose writer, "an important author within the realist feminist movement of the 1970s". She is also a children's writer. She received the Ministry of Culture's children book prize (Denmark) in 2002 for her books Englekraft, I vilden sky and Himmelfald. In 2009 she received the Danish Literature Prize for Women.
Ole Fogh Kirkeby is a Danish philosopher and a professor at Copenhagen Business School in the Philosophy of Leadership.
The Robert Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role is a Danish Film Academy award presented at the annual Robert Award ceremony to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a Danish film.
De Gyldne Laurbær is a Danish literature award, which was established in 1949. The award is handed by The Committee De Gyldne Laurbær, formerly Boghandlerklubben. The prize is given annually in February or March. Originally the award was a laurel wreath, a golden pin with an inscription, some money and a book gift worth 2500 DKK. Today the award is a laurel wreathe, a diploma and a book gift worth 2500 DKK. The award is handed at a ceremony arranged by the publishing house which has published the winning book and by the Committee De Gyldne Laurbær. Early in January every year the committee sends out ballot to all the Danish bookshops, which then give their vote for a Danish book which was published the year before. An author can only win The Golden Laurel once-in-a-lifetime, so the bookshops can not vote for an author who has already won the prize once before. The winner is usually one of the bestsellers among the Danish books. On the day when it is decided who wins the Golden Laurel, the president of the Committee of The Golden Laurel informs the winner about the award, while journalists follow the event.
Riel Nason is a Canadian novelist. Her debut novel The Town That Drowned, published in 2011 by Goose Lane Editions, won the Commonwealth Book Prize for Canada and Europe in 2012. It was also awarded the 2012 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, was shortlisted for several other literary awards, and was longlisted for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Annemette Kure Andersen is a Danish poet and literary editor. Her poetry has been translated into several languages including English.
Lars Muhl is a Danish writer, mystic and musician, born in Aarhus, Denmark in 1950.
Lisa McInerney is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor and screenwriter. She is best known for her novel, The Glorious Heresies, which was the 2016 winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Mette Jæger Blomsterberg is a Danish pastry chef, restaurateur and cookbook writer. She has been a judge in the television programme Den store bagedyst, the Danish equivalent of The Great British Bake Off.
Sara Omar is a Danish-Kurdish author, human rights activist and poet. She is the first internationally recognized female novelist from Kurdistan Region of Iraq. She started out as a poet and has published several critical articles in the Middle Eastern media.
Paula Gabriela Larrain Bjørn is a Danish journalist, author and politician. In the course of her career, she has written and presented for a variety of news organisations in Denmark. She has authored two books: I morgen skal vi hjem (2003) and Uden for citat (2008).
Jim Lyngvild is a Danish designer, writer, photographer, fashion columnist and television personality.
Aki-Matilda Tilia Ditte Høegh-Dam is a Danish-Greenlandic politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Siumut political party. She was elected into parliament at the 2019 Danish general election, entering parliament at 22 years old, becoming its youngest member.
Ane Marie Elise Toft, later Grundtvig, née Carlsen was a wealthy Danish landowner who owned and efficiently administered the Rønnebæksholm estate near Næstved which she had inherited from her first husband following a marriage lasting less than two years. She opened up Rønnebæksholm to religious revivalists, attracting both clerics and laymen to the estate. In 1851, she married the influential philosopher, N.F.S. Grundtvig, who had visited the estate in 1846. Her manor house subsequently became one of the principal centres of Grundtvigian activity while Grundtvig became deeply devoted to Toft, treating her as his independent and spiritually equal partner.
The Harald Mogensen Prize is a Danish literary award for detective novels awarded by the Danish Criminal Academy. It was founded in 2006 and was first awarded in 2007. It is named after Danish author, editor, journalist and critic Harald Mogensen who was awarded The Danish Criminal Academy diploma in 1993.
