From Thit Jensen to Kim Larsen and King Frederik

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Lecture with Jens Andersen about writing biographies. Is a biography the truth about a person, or is it full of lies? And what does it really take to write a life on paper? Jens Andersen invites the audience into the biography workshop He shares experiences, surprises and aha moments from working on his many award-winning biographies of, among others, Tom Kristensen, Tove Ditlevsen, HC Andersen, Ole Lund Kirkegaard, Frank Arnesen and Queen Margrethe. And Andersen has portrayed the Danish king not once, but twice - most recently in Kongeord from 2024. With humor, insight and respect for his sources, Andersen tells about his meetings with artists, royalty and creative souls - and about how a biography is always the result of a meeting between the biography's author and the person behind the story. Jens Andersen is a Ph D in Nordic literature, a recognized literary critic and recipient of, among others, the Georg Brandes Prize, the Søren Gyldenda Prize and the Hans Christian Andersen Scholarship.