Knudstrup School, Løve
29 May 1985
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‘My habit of being a dreamer is filled with the joy of melancholy.’
Knudstrup School, Løve
29 May 1985
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Suzanne Brøgger was born in Copenhagen in 1944. She is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, essays, poetry and memoir, including The Jade Cat and the autobiographical trilogy of liberation, experimentation and identity, Crème Fraîche, Yes and Transparency. She has been a member of the Danish Academy since 1997.
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