NIELS FRANK's (b.1962) first book of poems in 1985 (The Instant/Oejeblikket) promised a young serious Danish talent. This seriousness he kept until his fourth book of poems in 1996 Tabernacle which shows a unique sense of humor and recklessness. He has published two books of literary essays, translated John Ashbery's A Wave, and edited an anthology Arrivals-in the 90s (Ankomster-til 90erne).
PIA TAFDRUP (b.1952) is a major Danish writer and had the honor of getting the 1999 Nordic Council Literature Prize for The Queen's Gate (Dronningeporten) published in 1998. This year she published Thousand Born (Tusindfoedt), which is her tenth book of poems. Walking on Water (Over vandet gaar jeg) is an outline og a poetics from 1991, Death in the Mountains (Doeden i bjergene) and The Earth is Blue (Jorden er Blaa) her two plays.
ANNEMETTE KURE ANDERSEN (b.1962) has published four books of poems. She is a poet who masters the epigramatic form, and she is the chief editor of Denmarks leading literary magazine Grain of Wheat (Hvedekorn). Her latest book, published in 1997, has the telling title Epiphanies (Epifanier).
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