Josefine Klougart (born 1985) is a Danish novelist living in
Copenhagen. Klougart has studied Art- and Literature at
Aarhus University
Aarhus University ( da, Aarhus Universitet, abbreviated AU) is a public research university with its main campus located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark. The university is part of the Coimbra Gr ...
an graduated from the Danish Academy of Creative Writing in 2010. In 2017 she was introduced as guest professor at the
University of Bern in
Switzerland
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. Klougart has published 5 novels and three prose books, she has figured in number of collaborative projects, in 2016 she co-published the book ''Your Glacial Expectations'' with the
Icelandic artist
Olafur Eliasson.
Klougart's novels are translated into 13 languages. Her latest book ''New Forest'' was published in
Denmark in November 2016. Klougart's first book ''Stigninger og fald'' (Rise and Fall) which earned her a nomination for the
Nordic Council
The Nordic Council is the official body for formal inter-parliamentary Nordic cooperation among the Nordic countries. Formed in 1952, it has 87 representatives from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden as well as from the autonomou ...
Literature Prize in 2011. Her third novel ''Én af os sover'' (One of us is sleeping) was nominated three years later. Klougart is a recipient of the Danish Royal Prize for Culture.
Together with Danish novelist Hans Otto Jørgensen and editor Jakob Sandvad, Klougart in 2010 founded the activist publishing house Forlaget Gladiator where she is now a part of the management, teacher at the writers school and an editor.
Works
Novels
* Stigninger og fald (Rise and Fall)
* Hallerne
* Én af os sover (One of us is sleeping)
* Om Mørke, Gladiator 2016
* New Forest
Prose books
* Den vind man manglede
* Regn
* Novilix
References
1985 births
Danish women novelists
Living people
21st-century Danish novelists
21st-century Danish women writers
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