Cindy Lynn Brown (born 1973) is a Danish-American poet. In 2013, she received the Danish Agricultural cultural foundation poetry award.
Biography
Brown was born in
Aarhus
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and is of Jewish descent. She grew up in Denmark, the US and UK and later on also lived and studied in France. She has a degree in
literature
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and
creative writing
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from
University of Southern Denmark
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The university offers a number of joint programmes in ...
and
Université de Nancy II.
Brown has published six collections of poetry and one novel and she is translated into
French
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* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
, Italian,
Bengali
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*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
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, Slovene, Chinese, Korean and
Croatian. She has also contributed poems and short stories to various magazines, reviews and anthologies. Brown is the organizer of the International poetry festival
Odense Lyrik which takes place every year in March. The festival has existed since 2007.
Awards
* Danish Agricultural cultural foundation poetry award, 2013
Bibliography
* ''A til B Z til Fisk'', 2019 (poems)
* ''Dealbreaker'', 2017 (poems)
* ''Ingen kan se os bagfra'', 2016 (poems)
* ''The lungs are strangers inside'', 2015 (poems)
* ''Din lille darling'', 2014 (poems/short prose)
* ''Game'', 2014 (poems)
* ''Mute'', 2013 (novel)
* ''Rigtige børn vokser - ikke op i forbifarten'', Spring Publications, 2011
* ''Ildebefindende'', Spring publications, 2010
* ''Korrektur'', Spring Publications, 2009
External links
kamov residency description of poetDanish Authors Societythe Feminist Wire
Living people
1973 births
21st-century American poets
American people of Danish descent
Writers from Aarhus
American women poets
21st-century American women writers
University of Southern Denmark alumni
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