Jane Aamund (born 1936) whose popularity stems above all from her erotically presented autobiographical works which became best sellers in the 1990s.
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Among today's most successful authors are Leif Davidsen who writes gripping spy stories with a political extension, Bjarne Reuter with his intriguing novels for younger readers, Peter Høeg who gained international fame with Smilla's Sense of Snow and Jens Christian Grøndahl whose love stories with a psychological twist include "Silence in October" and "An Altered Light".
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In all Grundtvig wrote or translated about 1,500 hymns, including "God's Word Is Our Great Heritage", most of which are still frequently sung today.
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Jens Christian Grøndahl (born 1959) began his literary career in 1985 with novels in the rather complex French nouveau roman style.
Shortly after graduating, she was an associate professor of Danish literature at the University of Oslo from 1995 to 2001, and is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Copenhagen.
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Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen (born August 2, 1950) is a Danish author who, after following several different courses of study and engaging in various professions, embarked on his literary career with two books about Groucho Marx in 1984.
Both ships were named after characters from the works of Ludvig Holberg, a Norwegian-born writer considered to be the father of modern Danish literature.