Bodil Steensen-Leth

Bodil Steensen-Leth (* 12. January 1945 in Svendborg , Denmark as Bodil Heide-Jørgensen ) is a Danish writer .

Life

Bodil Steensen-Leth was born as the daughter of the chief doctor of the hospital in Svendborg. While her brothers also took up the medical profession, after graduating from Svendborg Grammar School in 1963, she decided to spend a year abroad at the University of Oregon and then took up a language course at the University of Copenhagen . She received her PhD in English from Odense Universitet in 1972. From 1978 to 1998 she worked as a literary critic for the newspaper Jyllands-Posten .

She made her literary debut in 1984 with the novella Pandæmonion . Three years later, in 1987, the first novel was published, Alle stirrer på mig . She achieved great success with her novel Prinsesse af blodet , published in 2000 . The story of the Danish Queen Caroline Mathilde was adapted for the cinema by Nikolaj Arcel under the title The Queen and the Personal Physician .

Together with writers such as Susanne Clod Pedersen , Dan H. Andersen , Maria Helleberg and Charlotte Weitze , Helleberg participated in the series of novels Slægten . The book series includes historical novels that deal with events in Danish history from the Viking Age to 1864 ( Düppeler Schanzen ).

She is married to the landowner Christian Vincens Steensen-Leth, the family lives on the Steensgård estate on the island of Langeland .

Works (selection)

Novels

• All stirrer på mig (1987)
• Jomfru Fanny (1989)
• Møller (1991)
• Stenen og lyset (1994)
• Ikke som en spottefugl (1998)
• Prinsesse af blodet (2000)
• Lili (2004)
• Fem år i Berlin (2008)

Short stories

• Pandæmonion (1984)
• Døden's labyrint (1986)
• The sidste concert (1996)
• Guds øje (2002)

Parts of the Slægten novel series

• Tradition and fornyelse (2009)

Web links

• Bodil Steensen-Leth in the Internet Movie Database (English)