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Helle Helle (actually Helle Olsen , born December 14, 1965 in Nakskov , Lolland ) is a Danish writer . She lives with her family in Lynge near Sorø .

life and work

Helle Helle grew up in Rødby on the island of Lolland. From 1985 to 1987 she studied literature at the University of Copenhagen , from 1989 she attended the writers' school (Danish Forfatterskolen ). From 1990 to 1995 she worked for the Danish radio .

Two years after graduating from writing school, her debut book Eksempel på liv ( An Example for Life ), an experimental prose composition , appeared under the name Helle Helle . In 1987 she had already published a book under the name Helle Krogh Hansen. In the following years she received various scholarships and received several awards. In 1999 her first novel Hus og hjem ( House and Home ) came out, which was translated into German by Verena Reichel in the same year .

Six years later, after Forestillingen om et uncomplicated liv med en mand ( The idea of ​​an uncomplicated life with a man ), her third novel, Rødby-Puttgarden , was published, which, unlike its predecessors, is not about couple relationships, but about "women without men". In it, Helle Helle tells the story of the half-sisters Tine and Jane, who together with Tine's daughter form a very special family. In their apparently monotonous life - they both work on the ferry that runs between Denmark and Germany - death is a constant companion, while the men just come and go. For Rødby-Puttgarden , Helle Helle received the Danish Critics' Prize, among other things . In 2008 the novel Ned til hundene (about: Down to the dogs ) was published.

Since 2011 Helle Helle has received a lifelong artist income from the Danish Art Fund. In the motivation for the proposal of the representative assembly of the art fund it was said: "With her masterful staging of the completely ordinary life she emerges today as one of the most important interpreters of the middle class and the Danish provinces."

Helle Helle's novels have so far been translated into ten languages, including a. into German, French, Dutch, Estonian and Czech.

In March 2011 she represented her country at the Paris Book Fair . With her book Hvis det er (2014) she was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2015 .

Works

• Eksempel på liv (novel), Copenhagen 1993, ISBN 87-595-0354-8 (not yet in German)
• Rester (short stories), Copenhagen 1996, ISBN 87-568-1365-1 (not yet in German)
• Hus og hjem (Roman), Copenhagen 1999, ISBN 87-568-1534-4 (German house and home , German TV, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-423-13064-4 )
• Biler og dyr (short stories), Copenhagen 2000, ISBN 87-568-1574-3 (not yet in German)
• Forestillingen om et ukompliceret liv med en mand (Roman), Copenhagen 2002, ISBN 87-568-1696-0 (German: The idea of ​​an uncomplicated life with a man , translated by Flora Fink, Dörlemann , Zurich 2012, ISBN 978 -3-908777-75-5 )
• Min mor sidder fast på en pind (children's book, together with Lars Nørgaard), Copenhagen 2003, ISBN 87-91192-32-3 (not yet in German)
• Pheasants. Timetables. Wedding. Three stories (selection from Rester and Biler og dyr , translated by Ina Kronenberger). In: Occasional snowfall. New texts from Scandinavia. Edited by Klaus Böldl and Uwe Englert. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-809058-5 (= Neue Rundschau , 2004, issue 3).
• Rødby-Puttgarden (Roman), Copenhagen 2005, ISBN 87-638-0145-0 (German: Rødby-Puttgarden , translated by Flora Fink, Dörlemann, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-908777-59-5 )
• Ned til hundene (novel), Copenhagen 2008, ISBN 978-87-638-0854-5 (German: heifer island , translated by Flora Fink, Dörlemann, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-03820-014-7 ).
• Dette burde skrives i nutid (Roman), Copenhagen 2011, ISBN 978-87-638-1785-1 (not yet in German)

• Hvis det er (Roman), Copenhagen 2014, ISBN 978-87-638-3241-0 (German: if you like, translated by Flora Fink, Dörlemann, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-03820-034-5 )

• de (Roman), Copenhagen 2018, ISBN 978-87-638-5762-8

Awards and grants (selection)

• 1995 Three-year scholarship from the Harald Kidde and Astrid Ehrencron Kidde Foundation
• 2000 “Edith and Helge Rode” scholarship
• 2003 Scholarship from the Otto Rung Foundation
• 2003 Beatrice Prize from the Danish Academy
• 2005 Award-winning nomination for the Danish Bank Literature Prize (BG Banks Litteraturpris)
• 2005 Danish Critics 'Prize ( Critics' Prizes ) for Rødby-Puttgarden
• 2009 Per Olov Enquist Prize
• 2011 Lifelong artist income from the Danish Art Fund
• 2012 Golden Laurel ( De Gyldne Laurbær ) from the Danish Booksellers Club for the novel Dette burde skrives i nutid
• 2016 Det Danske Akademis Store Pris

She has also received several work grants from the Danish Art Fund and in 2005 a premium for Rødby-Puttgarden

Web links

• Hellehelle.net Helle's personal website (Danish / English)
• Literature by and about Helle Helle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Review of home and home perlentaucher.de
• Review of Rødby-Puttgarden perlentaucher.de
• Brief résumé and reviews litteratursiden.dk
• “Why did you choose me?”: Interview with Helle at the Leipzig Book Fair 2012 leipzig-almanach.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helle receives "Golden Laurel" (Danish) Sjællands Nyheder, January 24, 2012, accessed January 24, 2012
2. ↑ https://www.dr.dk/tv/se/kender-du-typen-tv/kender-du-typen-7-8-4#!/36:35
3. ↑ Reason (Danish) ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Statens Kunstfond, accessed October 16, 2013  
4. ↑ Press release of the Book Fair of October 22, 2010 , requested on December 10, 2010
5. ↑ Nominations for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2015 ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
6. ↑ Neue Rundschau 3/2004
7. ↑ Review by Tobias Prüwer at Perlentaucher
8. ↑ Livsvarige ydelser ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Statens Kunstfond, accessed January 24, 2012  
9. ↑ Information on the artist's income ( memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Buchreport.de, accessed on January 24, 2012  
10. ↑ Helle Helle får De Gyldne Laurbær DR Nyheder, January 24, 2012, accessed on January 24, 2012
11. ↑ Helle receives "Golden Laurel" (Danish) Sjællands Nyheder, January 24, 2012, accessed January 24, 2012