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Suzanne Preis Brøgger Zeruneith (born 18 November 1944 in

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) is a Danish writer, a novelist, poet and journalist. Her first book ''Fri os fra kærligheden'' has been translated into c. 20 languages. Since 1997 she has been a member of the

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Early life

Brøgger grew up in Denmark until she was fourteen, after that she moved abroad with her mother and her stepfather Svend Brøgger, who worked for UNICEF and was stationed in

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and later in

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. Suzanne Brøgger returned to Denmark to attend high school a couple of years later. She finished the

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. She did not graduate, but has later said that her university days inspired her to constantly extend her horizons in life-long study.

After secondary school

While studying she also worked as a model and with films and theatre. Through articles in Danish newspapers in the form of interviews, travel descriptions and war articles, she got in touch with a publishing house, which offered her to publish her first book. Her first book was the essay collection ''Fri os fra kærligheden'' (Deliver Us from Love), which was published in 1973, it is critical against the western way of life. Her break through in

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was ''Creme Fraiche'', which was published in 1978. This book is the first of a trilogy of autobiographical books and describes her childhood and youth years in Denmark and in the

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(Sri Lanka and Thailand). In 1997 she published one of her main works the family saga ''Jadekatten'' (The Jade Cat: A Family Saga, 1997) where she writes about the same autobiographical themes as in the trilogy, which started with ''Creme Fraiche'' in 1973, but here she also writes about her Jewish family who immigrated from Poland to Denmark. Besides from being a portrayal of the loss of a family, it is also a showdown with her mother.

Family

She is the daughter of Ove Preis (1920–69) and Lilian Henius (1921–93), stepdaughter of Svend Brøgger. She is married to Keld Zeruneith, they have one child together.

Bibliography

* 1973 – ''Fri os fra kærligheden'' * 1975 – ''Kærlighedens veje & vildveje'' * 1978 – ''Creme fraiche'' * 1979 – ''En gris som har været oppe at slås kan man ikke stege'' * 1980 – ''Brøg'', essays og journalistik fra 1960'erne * 1981 – ''Tone'' * 1984 – ''JA'' * 1986 – ''Den pebrede susen'' * 1988 – ''Livsformer – essay "Om at kysse hesten"'' * 1988 – ''Edvard og Elvira'' * 1990 – ''Min verden i en nøddeskal'' * 1991 – ''Efter Orgiet'' * 1993 – ''Paradisets Mave'' * 1993 – ''Transparence'' * 1994 – ''Vølvens spådom'' (poems, retelling of the Old Norse

Völuspá ''Vǫluspá'' (also ''Völuspá'', ''Vǫlospá'' or ''Vǫluspǫ́''; Old Norse: 'Prophecy of the völva, a seeress'; reconstructed Old Norse: ) is the best known poem of the '' Poetic Edda''. It tells the story of the creation of the world an ...

) * 1995 – ''Løvespor'' * 1997 – ''Jadekatten'' (novel) * 1998 – ''Et frit og muntert lig'' * 1999 – ''Lotusøje'' (poems) * 2000 – ''Sejd'' * 2001 – ''Linda Evangelista Olsen'' * 2006 – ''Sølve'' * 2008 – ''Sløret'' (poems) * 2010 – ''Jeg har set den gamle verden forsvinde – hvor er mine ørenringe?'' * 2016 – En sommer med Emmanuelle Arsan (Un été avec Emmanuelle Arsan) bilingual postface (french/dansk) of ''La Philosophie Nue'' by

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Awards and prizes

Some of the many awards and prizes which Suzanne Brøgger has received: * 1975: PH-prisen * 1980: Weekendavisens Litteraturpris * 1982:

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* 1985:

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* 1985: Lifelong grant from

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* 1996:

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* 1999:

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* 2001:

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* 2002:

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* 2005:

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References

Literature

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. ''Krukke. En biografi om Suzanne Brøgger''Frihet og avmakt: Jeg er brennemerket, sier Suzanne Brøgger. For første gang snakker hun ut om biografien. Bye, bye, Brøgger
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External links

Suzanne Brøgger's official website and calendar

Suzanne Brøgger
on Litteratursiden.dk
Suzanne Brøgger
på Kvinfo.dk (Danish Women's Encyclopedia)
Suzanne Brøgger
on Bibliografi.dk
One Long Letter to the World. A video interview with Suzanne Brøgger
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Interview with Suzanne Brøgger about her university years in the 1960's
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