Villy Sørensen

1929 - 2001

country of citizenship: Denmark

languages spoken, written or signed: Danish

educated at: University of Copenhagen, University of Freiburg

occupation: writer, translator, philosopher, literary critic

award received: Grand Prize of the Danish Academy, Danish Critics Prize for Literature, Søren Gyldendal Prize, Swedish Academy Nordic Prize, honorary doctorate of the University of Copenhagen, Amalienborg Award, Nordic Council Literature Prize, Hans Christian Andersen Award

Villy Sørensen (13 January 1929 – 11 September 2001) was a Danish short story writer, philosopher and literary critic of the Modernist tradition. His fiction was heavily influenced by his philosophical ideas, and he has been compared to Franz Kafka in this regard. Source: Wikipedia (en)