Mogens Klitgaard (23 August 1906 – 23 December 1945) was a Danish writer. He was born in

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. He published the novel ''Gud mildner Luften for de klippede Faar'' in 1938, about the superficiality of the bourgeoisie. He is most well-known, however, for his portrait of the man on the floor in ''Der sidder en Mand i en Sporvogn'' (1937) about a deroute during the economic crisis of the 1930s. As a result of his activity in the

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, he fled to Sweden in 1943. He survived the war, but died soon after as a result of a recurrence of his childhood

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