Søren Gyldendal Prize

The Søren Gyldendal Prize ( Danish : Søren Gyldendal prisen ) is a Danish literary prize since 1958 by the Foundation Fonden Søren Gyldendal is awarded. The award's namesake, Søren Gyldendal (1742–1802), was the founder of Gyldendal , which is now Denmark's oldest and largest publisher. The prize is awarded annually on his birthday on April 12th and comes with a monetary award, which was increased to 200,000 Danish kroner in 2009 . Until 1994 the premium was 10,000 kroner, from 1994 to 2000 100,000 kroner and from 2001 to 2008 150,000 kroner. The Søren Gyldendal Prize is mainly awarded to Danish authors who, according to the foundation charter, are “in the midst of a strong and peculiar creative act” and who are to be encouraged to continue their work through the award. From year to year there is a change between authors of fiction and non-fiction .

Award winners

Namesake and publisher's founder Søren Gyldendal (1742–1802)

Pia Tafdrup , 2005 awardee

Klaus Rifbjerg , 1969 laureate

No.	year	Award winners	Born	Died
1.	1958	Willy-August Linnemann	74086970500 ♠0June 4, 1914	76842184950 ♠22 Aug 1985
2.	1959	KE Løgstrup	73747429250 ♠0Sep 2 1905	76696135700 ♠Nov 20, 1981
2.	1959	Sven Møller Kristensen	73909106700 ♠Nov 12, 1909	77072607875 ♠0Aug 3, 1991
3.	1960	Thorkild Bjørnvig	74229670850 ♠0Feb. 2, 1918	77560989125 ♠05th Mar 2004
4th	1961	Jørgen Hæstrup	73899897225 ♠0Aug 9, 1909	77332426700 ♠Apr 12, 1998
5.	1962	Frank Jaeger	74552746675 ♠June 19, 1926	76527946500 ♠04th July 1977
6th	1963	Thorkild Hansen	74575630825 ♠0Jan. 9, 1927	76977443300 ♠0Feb. 4, 1989
6th	1963	Palle Lauring	73906502000 ♠Oct 16, 1909	77272053475 ♠0Oct 3, 1996
7th	1964	Ole Sarvig	74374882875 ♠Nov. 27, 1921	76697624100 ♠0Dec. 4, 1981
8th.	1965	Villy Sørensen	74653399725 ♠Jan. 13, 1929	77472708400 ♠Dec 16, 2001
9.	1966	Peter Vilhelm Glob	73960456500 ♠Feb. 20, 1911	76839022100 ♠July 20, 1985
10.	1967	Hans Lyngby Jepsen	74312928225 ♠0Apr 1, 1920	77459219775 ♠July 31, 2001
11.	1968	Torben Brostrøm	74590049700 ♠0June 4, 1927
12.	1969	Klaus Rifbjerg	74763727375 ♠Dec 15, 1931	77989555300 ♠0Apr 4, 2015
13.	1970	Days Kaarsted	74627910875 ♠May 27, 1928	77203028925 ♠Dec 29, 1994
14th	1971	Tove Ditlevsen	74221856750 ♠Dec 14, 1917	76477619975 ♠07th Mar 1976
15th	1972	Johan Fjord Jensen	74647818225 ♠December 17, 1928	77627967125 ♠Dec 21, 2005
16.	1973	Poul Ørum	74300090775 ♠23 Dec 1919	77318938075 ♠Dec. 27, 1997
17th	1974	Elsa Gress	74266787825 ♠Jan. 17, 1919	76954931250 ♠July 18, 1988
18th	1975	Leif Panduro	74430604850 ♠Apr 18, 1923	76511202000 ♠Jan. 16, 1977
19th	1976	Jørgen Knudsen	74544095350 ♠22 Mar 1926	78081557025 ♠0Sep 1 2017
20th	1977	Erik Aalbæk Jensen	74442605075 ♠Aug 19, 1923	77310286750 ♠Sep 30 1997
21st	1978	Paul Hammerich	74591166000 ♠June 16, 1927	77100236300 ♠Apr 12, 1992
22nd	1979	Days of Skou-Hansen	74501489900 ♠Feb 12, 1925	78011044075 ♠Nov 11, 2015
23.	1980	Hakon Lund	74641957650 ♠Oct 18, 1928	77915135300 ♠04th May 2013
24.	1981	Not so with Bodelsen	74965777675 ♠Feb 11, 1937
25th	1982	Svend Cedergreen Bech	74304462950 ♠0Jan. 6, 1920	77680805325 ♠Apr 13, 2007
25th	1982	Erik Kjersgaard	74752099250 ♠Aug 18, 1931	77223494425 ♠June 25, 1995
26th	1983	Inger Christensen	74885869200 ♠Jan. 16, 1935	77748248450 ♠0Jan. 2, 2009
27.	1984	Thomas Bredsdorff	74970801025 ♠0Apr 1, 1937
28.	1985	Svend Åge Madsen	75069128450 ♠0Nov 2, 1939
29	1986	Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen	75271550850 ♠0Jan. 2, 1945
30th	1987	Cecil Bødker	74583258875 ♠27 Mar 1927	78184442675 ♠Apr 19, 2020
30th	1987	Henrik Nordbrandt	75279271925 ♠21 Mar 1945
30th	1987	Kirsten Thorup	75159083625 ♠0Feb 9, 1942
31.	1988	Else Roesdahl	75160665050 ♠Feb. 26, 1942
32.	1989	Klaus Høeck	75032755675 ♠Nov. 27, 1938
33.	1990	Søren Mørch	74839914850 ♠0Dec. 2, 1933
34.	1991	Vita Andersen	75262155325 ♠Oct. 29, 1944
35.	1992	Jørgen Jensen	74943730750 ♠July 30, 1936	77715503650 ♠02nd Mar 2008
36.	1993	Ib Michael	75272946225 ♠Jan. 17, 1945
37.	1994	Hanne Engberg	74909218475 ♠Sep 11 1935
38.	1995	Dorrit Willumsen	75101594175 ♠Aug 31, 1940
39.	1996	Hans Hertel	75041220950 ♠Jan. 22, 1939
40.	1997	Bjarne Reuter	75476484925 ♠Apr. 29, 1950
41.	1998	Niels Birger Wamberg	74720935875 ♠0Nov 3, 1930
42.	1999	Suzanne Brøgger	75264108850 ♠Nov 18, 1944
43.	2000	Frans Lasson	74913032500 ♠Oct. 20, 1935	77756062550 ♠22 Mar 2009
44.	2001	Bent Vinn Nielsen	75509880900 ♠04th Mar 1951
45.	2003	Bo Lidegaard	75776583575 ♠Jan. 23, 1958
46.	2003	Hanne-Vibeke Holst	75818072725 ♠Feb 21, 1959
47.	2004	Keld Zeruneith	75124292275 ♠19 Mar 1941
48.	2005	Pia Tafdrup	75556858525 ♠May 29, 1952
49.	2006	Jens Andersen	75689512175 ♠Nov 15, 1955
50.	2007	Jens Christian Grøndahl	75843747625 ♠0Nov 9, 1959
51.	2008	Peter Øvig Knudsen	75918167625 ♠0Oct 9, 1961
52.	2009	Ida Jessen	76032774425 ♠25 Sep 1964
53.	2010	Tom Buk-Swienty	76103659475 ♠July 19, 1966
54.	2011	Well Marie Aidt	76002913400 ♠Dec 24, 1963
55.	2012	Carsten Jensen	75562347000 ♠July 24, 1952
56.	2013	Jens Smærup Sørensen	75324761150 ♠May 30, 1946
57.	2014	Lone Frank	76110450300 ♠28 Sep 1966
58.	2015	Søren Ulrik Thomsen	75709698600 ♠0May 8, 1956
59.	2016	Morten Moller
60.	2017	Kirsten Hammann	76075193825 ♠0Nov 1, 1965
61.	2018	Anne-Marie May	75615092175 ♠Dec 15, 1953
61.	2019	Kim Leine	75913981500 ♠Aug 28, 1961

Web links

Winner of the Søren Gyldendal Prize

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Danske litteraturpriser: Forlaget Gyldendal - Søren Gyldendal Prisen , accessed on September 2, 2010 (Danish)
↑ ^a ^b Den Store Danske : Søren Gyldendal Prisen , accessed on September 2, 2010 (Danish)
^ Marie Ravn Nielsen: Carsten Jensen får pris for at lave rav i den . In DR Kultur on April 12, 2012, accessed on April 24, 2012 (Danish)

[Forlaget-1] Danske litteraturpriser: Forlaget Gyldendal - Søren Gyldendal Prisen , accessed on September 2, 2010 (Danish)

[DSDSGP-2] Den Store Danske : Søren Gyldendal Prisen , accessed on September 2, 2010 (Danish)

[DR_April_2012-3] Marie Ravn Nielsen: Carsten Jensen får pris for at lave rav i den . In DR Kultur on April 12, 2012, accessed on April 24, 2012 (Danish)