De Gyldne Laurbær (English: The Golden Laurel) (earlier: Boghandlernes Gyldne Laurbær) is a

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, which was established in 1949. The award is handed by ''The Committee De Gyldne Laurbær'', formerly ''Boghandlerklubben'' (The Bookshops' Club). The prize is given annually in February or March. Originally the award was a laurel wreath, a golden pin with an inscription, some money and a book gift worth 2500 DKK. Today the award is a laurel wreathe, a diploma and a book gift worth 2500 DKK. The award is handed at a ceremony arranged by the publishing house which has published the winning book and by the Committee De Gyldne Laurbær. Early in January every year the committee sends out ballot to all the Danish bookshops, which then give their vote for a Danish book which was published the year before. An author can only win The Golden Laurel once-in-a-lifetime, so the bookshops can not vote for an author who has already won the prize once before. The winner is usually one of the bestsellers among the Danish books. On the day when it is decided who wins the Golden Laurel, the president of the Committee of The Golden Laurel informs the winner about the award, while journalists follow the event.

Recipients

* 1949 –

Martin A. Hansen Alfred Martin Jens Hansen (20 August 1909 – 27 June 1955) was a Danish writer who wrote under the name Martin A. Hansen. He is known for his writings as a member of the Danish resistance movement during the German occupation of Denmark in WWII ...

for ''Tanker i en skorsten'' * 1950 –

Hans Christian Branner Hans Christian Branner (23 June 1903 – 24 April 1966) was a Danish novelist, essayist and playwright. He was a leading writer of the post-World War II period in Denmark and a founder member of the Danish Academy. His work dealt with the themes ...

for ''Rytteren'' * 1951 – Jacob Paludan for ''Retur til barndommen'' * 1952 –

Karen Blixen Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote works in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countrie ...

for ''

Babettes gæstebud ''Babette's Feast'' ( da, Babettes Gæstebud) is a 1987 Danish drama film directed by Gabriel Axel. The screenplay, written by Axel, was based on the 1958 story of the same name by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen). It was produced by Just Betzer, Bo ...

'' * 1953 –

Aage Dons Aage Bergishagen Dons (19 August 1903 – 20 October 1993) was a Danish writer. He is best known for his novels, ''De uønskede, Frosten paa Ruderne'', and ''Den svundne tid er ej forbi''. Life Dons was born on 18 August 1903 in Svanholm, Frede ...

for ''Altid at spørge'' * 1954 –

Tom Kristensen Tom Kristensen (born 7 July 1967) is a Danish former racing driver. He holds the record for the most wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with nine, six of which were consecutive (from 2000 to 2005). In 1997, he won the race with the Joest Racing te ...

* 1955 –

Tove Ditlevsen Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen (14 December 1917 – 7 March 1976) was a Danish poet and author. With published works in a variety of genres, she was one of Denmark's best-known authors by the time of her death. Life Tove Ditlevsen was born ...

* 1956 – * 1957 –

Halfdan Rasmussen Halfdan Wedel Rasmussen (29 January 1915 in Copenhagen – 2 March 2002) was a Danish poet. He was known for his literary nonsense verse for children and his serious adult writings about social issues and human rights. He was awarded with the ...

* 1958 – Frank Jæger * 1959 – * 1960 – * 1961 – Marcus Lauesen * 1962 – * 1963 – * 1964 – Erik Aalbæk Jensen * 1965 –

Thorkild Hansen Thorkild Hansen (9 January 1927 – 4 February 1989) was a Danish novelist most noted for his historical fiction. He is popularly known for his trilogy of novels about the Danish slave trade which is composed of '' Coast of Slaves'' (1967), '' S ...

* 1966 –

Klaus Rifbjerg Klaus Rifbjerg (15 December 1931 – 4 April 2015) was a Danish writer. He authored more than 170 novels, books and essays. In 1965 he co-produced the film '' 4x4'' which was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Biography Ri ...

for ''Operaelskeren'' * 1967 – * 1968 –

Anders Bodelsen Anders Bodelsen (11 February 1937 – 17 October 2021) was a Danish writer primarily associated with the 1960 new-realism wave in Danish literature, along with Christian Kampmann and Henrik Stangerup. Bodelsen preferred the social-realistic st ...

* 1969 –

Inger Christensen Inger Christensen (16 January 1935 – 2 January 2009) was a Danish poet, novelist, essayist and editor. She is considered the foremost Danish poetic experimentalist of her generation. Life and work Born in the town of Vejle, on the eastern J ...

for '' Det'' * 1970 –

Leif Panduro Leif Thormod Panduro (18 April 1923 – 16 January 1977) was a Danish writer, novelist, short story writer, and dramatist. Life A dentist by profession, he began in his thirties to write stories about people who can't conform to society's rule ...

* 1971 – for '' Løgn over løgn'' * 1972 –

Christian Kampmann Christian Peter Georg Kampmann (24 July 1939 in Hellerup – 13 September 1988 on Læsø) was a Danish writer and journalist. His novels are mainly about the middle and upper classes in the post war time and until the 1980s. The books are mainly ab ...

* 1973 – Anna Ladegaard * 1974 –

Benny Andersen Benny Andersen (7 November 1929 – 16 August 2018)Benny Andersen er død
'' * 1975 – * 1976 – Dea Trier Mørch * 1977 – * 1978 –

Vita Andersen Vita Andersen (29 October 1942 – 20 July 2021) was a Danish poet, novelist, playwright and children's writer. Career Andersen made her literary debut in 1977 with the poetry collection ', which is among the most sold poetry collections in Den ...

for '' Hold kæft og vær smuk'' * 1979 – Johannes Møllehave for ''Læsehest med æselører'' * 1980 –

Tage Skou-Hansen Tage Skou-Hansen (12 February 1925 – 11 November 2015) was a Danish writer, editor and scholar. Overview Born in the town of Fredericia, Tage Skou-Hansen graduated from Marselisborg Gymnasium in Aarhus and became a student of history of liter ...

* 1981 – Suzanne Brøgger for ''Tone'' * 1982 – Kirsten Thorup * 1983 – Dorrit Willumsen * 1984 –

Cecil Bødker Cecil Bødker (27 March 1927 – 19 April 2020) was a Danish writer and poet, most known for young adult fiction books about the character "Silas". For her "lasting contribution to children's literature" she received the international Hans Chr ...

for ''Marias Barn. Drengen'' and ''Marias Barn. Manden'' * 1985 –

Helle Stangerup Eva Helle Stangerup (30 October 1939 – 29 March 2015) was a Danish crime and thriller novelist. She published her first novel ''Gravskrift for Rødhætte'' in 1967 and followed it with her breakthrough work ''Gule handsker'' a year later. Stange ...

for ''Christine'' * 1986 – Paul Hammerich'' for '' Lysmageren'' * 1987 – Martha Christensen for ''

Dansen med Regitze ''Waltzing Regitze'', also known as ''Memories of a Marriage'', ( Original title: ''Dansen med Regitze'') is a 1989 Danish drama film directed by Kaspar Rostrup. Based upon a popular Danish novel by Martha Christensen, the film is an unsentiment ...

'' * 1988 –

Bjarne Reuter Bjarne Reuter (born 29 April 1950) is a Danish writer and screenwriter best known for children's and young adult fiction. * 1989 –

Ib Michael Ib Michael (born 1945 in Roskilde, Denmark) is a Danish novelist and poet. His writing style has been described as magic realism. He attended the University of Copenhagen, where he studied Central American and Indian Language and Culture. Michae ...

for ' * 1990 – Peter Seeberg for '' Om fjorten dage'' * 1991 –

Leif Davidsen Leif Davidsen (born 25 July 1950 in Otterup) is a Danish author and journalist. Career Educated as a journalist, in 1977 he started working in Spain as a freelance journalist for Danmarks Radio. In 1980 he began covering Soviet news with freq ...

for '' Den sidste spion'' * 1992 –

Lise Nørgaard Lise Nørgaard (born Elise Jensen; 14 June 1917 – 1 January 2023) was a Danish journalist and writer known for her precise and often humorous portrayals of Danish cultural life. Nørgaard wrote novels, compilations of essays and short stories. ...

for ''

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'' * 1993 –

Peter Høeg Peter Høeg (born 17 May 1957) is a Danish writer of fiction. He is best known for his novel '' Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow'' (1992). Early life Høeg was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Before becoming a writer, he worked variously as a sailor, ...

for '' De måske egnede'' * 1994 – Jørn Riel for ''Cirkulæret og andre skrøner'' * 1995 –

Henrik Nordbrandt Henrik Nordbrandt (21 March 1945 – 31 January 2023) was a Danish poet, novelist, and essayist. He made his literary debut in 1966 with the poetry collection ''Digte''. He was awarded the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2000 for the poetry c ...

for '' Ormene ved himlens port'' * 1996 –

Carsten Jensen Carsten Jensen (born 24 July 1952, Marstal, Denmark) is a Danish author and political columnist. He first earned recognition as a literary critic for the Copenhagen daily, ''Politiken.'' His novels, including ''I Have Seen the World Begin'' (199 ...

for '' Jeg har set verden begynde'' * 1997 – Jane Aamund for '' Colorado drømme'' * 1998 – Jens Christian Grøndahl for ''

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'' * 1999 – Svend Åge Madsen for '' Genspejlet'' * 2000 – for '' Kærlighedens rum'' * 2001 –

Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen (2 January 1945 – 2 April 2023) was a Danish art historian. Nørregård-Nielsen was born in . He was an alumnus of Ribe Katedralskole and wrote several memoirs. In 2001, he was awarded the De Gyldne Laurbær priz ...

for '' Riber Ret'' * 2002 –

Jakob Ejersbo Jakob Ejersbo (6 April 1968, in Rødovre – 10 July 2008, in Aalborg) was a Danish journalist and writer. His work is considered modern and neorealistic. Authoring the immensely popular novel, '' Nordkraft'', which sold more than 100,000 copies, ...

for '' Nordkraft'' * 2003 – for ' * 2004 –

Christian Jungersen Christian Jungersen (born 10 July 1962 in Copenhagen) is a Danish novelist whose works have been translated into 20 languages. He has published three novels in Danish – ''Krat'' (1999), ''Undtagelsen'' (2004, published in English as ''The Excep ...

for ' * 2005 – for ' * 2006 – for ' * 2007 – for ' * 2008 – Hanne-Vibeke Holst for '' Dronningeofret'' * 2009 – Ida Jessen for the novel '' Børnene'' * 2010 –

Jussi Adler-Olsen Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen (born 2 August 1950) is a Danish crime fiction writer, a publisher, editor, and entrepreneur, best known for his '' Department Q'' series. He made his debut as a nonfiction writer in 1984, and as a fiction ...

for the novel ' * 2011 –

Helle Helle Helle Helle (born 1965 as Helle Olsen but later named Helle Krogh Hansen) is a widely translated Danish short story writer and novelist. Basing her stories on episodes in the lives of ordinary people, she gained fame in 2005 with her novel ''Rødb ...

for the novel '' Dette burde skrives i nutid'' * 2012 –

Kim Leine Kim Leine Rasmussen (28 August 1961 in Seljord, Telemark) is a Danish-Norwegian author who writes about Greenland. In 2013, he was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize for the novel ''The Prophets of Eternal Fjord''. Bibliography ...

for the novel '' Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden'' * 2013 – for the novel '' Forbandede yngel'' * 2014 –

Sara Blædel Sara Blædel (born 6 August 1964) is a Danish author. She is best known for her crime fiction novels featuring Louise Rick. Blædel founded the "Sara B" crime fiction publishing company in 1993, and in 1995 she started to work as a journalist. ...

for the novel '' Kvinden de meldte savnet'' * 2015 – for the novel ''

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'' * 2016 – for the novel '' Folkets skønhed'' * 2017 – for the novel '' En anden gren'' * 2018 – for the novel ' * 2019 – Sara Omar for the novel ''Skyggedanseren'' * 2020 – Stine Pilgaard for the novel ''Meter i sekundet'' * 2021 – Thomas Korsgaard for the novel ''Man skulle nok have været der''

References

External links

List of recipients of the prize ''De Gyldne Laurbær''
on Boghandlerklubben.dk {{DEFAULTSORT:De Gyldne Laurbaer 1949 establishments in Denmark Awards established in 1949 Danish literary awards