Villy Sørensen

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Villy Sørensen (born January 13, 1929 in Frederiksberg , † December 16, 2001 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish prose writer , philosopher , translator, publicist and literary critic .

biography

Sørensen graduated from Vestre Borgerdyd Gymnasium in Copenhagen in 1947 . He then studied philosophy and psychology at the Universities of Copenhagen and Freiburg , but broke off his studies in 1953 without a degree (in 1979, however, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen). That year he also published his literary debut Sære Historier , a collection of fantastic short stories . Sære Historier has won several prizes and is considered by many critics to be the beginning of literary modernism in Denmark.

In the following years Sørensen lived in Hvidovre and worked as a journalist. From 1959 he published the magazine Vindrosen with Klaus Rifbjerg . He also published culturally critical and philosophical writings, essays, books and other prose collections. In 1965 he became a member of the Danish Academy . Sørensen died in Copenhagen in 2001 and was buried in Taarbæk's cemetery.

Act

Sørensen is considered to be the most important Danish philosopher of the 20th century. He was influenced by the existentialism of Martin Heidegger , Marxism and Sigmund Freud . His stories are compared with those of Franz Kafka . Sørensen's importance can also be seen in the fact that some of his works have been translated into several languages. Works that Sørensen translated into Danish include Grimm's Fairy Tales and The Castle and The Judgment by Franz Kafka. He also re-edited works by Herman Bang and Søren Kierkegaard, among others .

He has received several awards for his literary work, including the Nordic Council Literature Prize , the most important award for writers from the Nordic countries .

Works (selection)

  • 1953: Sære Historier (German excerpts 1959 in Tiger in the Kitchen, among other things harmless stories )
  • 1955: Ufarlige Historier (German excerpts from 1959 in Tiger in the Kitchen and others harmless stories )
  • 1964: Formynderfortællinger (German 1968, guardian stories )
  • 1969: Hverken - eller
  • 1976: Seneca - humanists at Nero's court (Ger. 1984, Seneca - a humanist at Nero's court )
  • 1978: Oprør fra midten (German 1979, riot in the middle )
  • 1982: Ragnarok - en gudefortælling ( Eng . 1984, Ragnarök: when it began to dawn on the gods )
  • 1986: De mange og de enkelte og other småhistorier (German 1990, The Many and the Individuals and Other Little Stories )
  • 1989: Apollons oprør - de udødeliges historie ( Eng . 1991, Apolls Aufruhr: Die Geschichte der Immortlichen )

Awards

literature

  • Horst Bien (Ed.): Meyers Taschenlexikon Northern European Literatures , Leipzig 1978

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Sørensen, Villy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish prose writer, philosopher, translator, publicist and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Frederiksberg
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2001
Place of death Copenhagen