Peer Hultberg (8 November 1935 – 20 December 2007) Peer Hultberg
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and

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. Peer Hultberg was born in

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northwest of

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and lived in Horsens and Viborg during his child and teenage years. From 1953 he studied at the

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(

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and

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). He lived for some years in

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and

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and then moved to

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in 1959. He continued his studies of Slavic languages at the

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and achieved a B.A. in 1963. Hultberg was a lecturer of

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and literature at the

for a couple of years while writing his thesis on the literary style of Wacław Berent. Having received his Ph.D., he moved back to his native country as a lecturer of the same subject at the University of Copenhagen in 1968. In 1973 he started studying

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at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich getting a

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in 1978. He moved to

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and worked as a Jungian analyst for several years. His writing career started in 1968 when he publiced two novels, but his breakthrough came with ''Requiem'' from 1985, a novel of 611 pages and 537 chapters. His other major achievement is ''Byen og verden'' from 1992 for which he was awarded the Danish Critics' Prize and later

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. In 2004, Hultberg received the Grand Prize of the Danish Academy.

Writings

Danish titles by Peer Hultberg (none are translated to English): *''Mytologisk landskab med Daphnes forvandling'' (novel, 1968) *''Desmond!'' (novel, 1968) *''Requiem'' (novel, 1985) *''Slagne veje'' (novel, 1988) *''Præludier'' (novel, 1989) *''Byen og verden'' (novel, 1992) *''Kronologi'' (novel, 1995) *''De skrøbelige'' (play, 1998) *''Fædra'' (play, 2000) *''Kunstgreb'' (play, 2000) *''Min verden - bogstavligt talt'' (biography, 2005) *''Vredens nat'' (novel, 2008)

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Danish male novelists Psychoanalysts Nordic Council Literature Prize winners 1935 births 2007 deaths Recipients of the Grand Prize of the Danish Academy 20th-century Danish novelists People from Viborg Municipality People from Vangede {{Denmark-writer-stub

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