Biography about Jørn Riel

Jørn Riel was born in Odense in 1931. From 1949 to 1951 he studied at the Nautical College in Copenhagen, after which he was a member of the two-year Lauge Koch expedition to Eastern Greenland. Jørn Riel lived in Greenland for ten years and then resumed his travels. 1964-71 he was Field Officer for the UN, stationed in the Middle East and Pakistan, also travelling in, among other places, Africa, the West Indies and Arctic Canada. Jørn Riel published his first book in 1970, En fortælling hvoraf man får et smukt ansigt (A Story from which you get a Beautiful Face), the first volume of a trilogy of novels which was completed during 1970-72 with Vorherres rævefælde (The Lord´s Fox Trap) and Det første af altings fest (The Celebration of the Very First Thing).

Literary prizes:
1995 - The Danish Booksellers' Golden Laurels


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