Pia Tafdrup has born in Copenhagen in 1952.
She has published 11 collections of poetry, including: When an Angel Breaks Her Silence; The Crystal Forest, Queen´s Gate, and The Whales in Paris.
She has also published a statement of her poetics, Walking over the Water, a novel,
Surrender, and two plays, Death in the Mountains and The Earth Is Blue.
English translations of her poems have been published in more than 50 literary journals in the U.K., U.S., Canada,
and Australia.
Tafdrup has received the Nordic Council's Literature
Prize in 1999 and the Nordic Prize in 2006 from The Swedish Academy.
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