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Kim Leine Rasmussen (b. 28 August 1961 in Seljord, Telemark) is a Danish-Norwegian author who writes about Greenland. [1] His books have been translated into twenty languages [2] and won several prestigious literary prizes.
Kim Leine Rasmussen (født 28. august 1961 i Bø i Telemark) er en dansk-norsk romanforfatter. Barndomsårene tilbragte han i den norske bygd Seljord, hvor familien var præget af deres tro som Jehovas Vidner. 1978 flyttede han til Danmark, hvor han i fem år boede hos sin far.
The Prophets of Eternal Fjord ( Danish: Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden) is a 2012 novel by Danish-Norwegian author Kim Leine. It won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2013 [1] and was shortlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award. [2]
Kim Leine is a Danish-Norwegian novelist. His previous novel to be translated into English, The Prophets of Eternal Fjord, was shortlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award, won the Golden Laurel Award, Denmark’s leading literary prize, and the Nordic Council's Literature Prize, awarded for books published across all the Nordic ...
Mar 2, 2018 · In The Colony of Good Hope, Kim Leine explores what happens when two cultures confront one another. In a distant colony, under the harshest conditions, the overwhelming forces of nature meet the vices of man.
Kim Leine is the author of Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden (3.96 avg rating, 3195 ratings, 348 reviews, published 2012), Kalak (4.09 avg rating, 961 ratings...
Kim Leine skildrer forbudte følelser og indre splittelse i et råt, sanseligt og detaljerigt sprog. Han debuterede i 2007 med den barske erindringsroman 'Kalak' om incest og stofmisbrug på Grønland.
Kim Leine has 27 books on Goodreads with 15421 ratings. Kim Leine’s most popular book is Hunger.
Det er barske og usminkede historier, den norskfødte forfatter Kim Leine skriver frem i sine værker. Fra debutens selvbiografiske historie til hans historiske roman ”Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden” kredser Leine om mennesker, der er kastet ind i hårde livsbaner, præget af misbrug og flugt.
The Colony of Good Hope. Kim Leine. Translated by Martin Aitken. Paperback. Buy the book. 16 February 2023. Imprint: Picador. Synopsis. 'A superb novel . . . A hugely powerful chronicle of lives lived on the edge' - Sunday Times, Books of the Year.
