Ole Henrik Laub (3 December 1937 in

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...

– 22 October 2019) was a Danish

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

and author of short-stories and children books. He was also an art painter and cartoonist. Laub made his debut in 1967 with ''Et Sværd Dyppet i Honning'', a collection of

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

. He wrote more than fifty books, short stories, novels, and books for children. He also wrote for the stage, for radiodrama and plays for TV. Many of his stories are about people in Danish provincial towns.

Novels

* ''Fondamenta Nuove'' 1996 * ''Hovedrollen'' 1997 * ''Alle Himlens Farver'' 2002 * ''Fugle flyver hjem'' 2005 * ''Fjolsernes Konge'' (King of Fools) 2007

References

1937 births 2019 deaths Danish children's writers Danish male novelists Writers from Aarhus 20th-century Danish novelists 20th-century Danish male writers {{Denmark-writer-stub