Morten S

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Morten Søndergaard

• A Danish Poet!

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About the poet

• Morten Sødergaard was born in Copenhagen in 1964.
  In 1993 he obtained the degree of cand.phil. in
  Literature at the University of Copenhagen.

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Morten Søndergaard
We dont know very much about him...

• He is known for being a very original poet, who
  tells about humans in a new way. In 1992, he
  wrote his first poem collection Sahara i mine
  hæder
• - (Sahara In My Hands), which was followed two
  years later by the collection Ild og tal
  - (Fire and Number(s)). Then he created a
  poetic short story Ubestemmelsessteder
  - (Indeterminated Places, 1996), followed
  by his third collection of poetry Bier dør
  sovende - (Bees Die Sleeping, 1998), which was
  Morten Sødergaards breakthrough to a wider
  public.
• Side by side with his writing he has been
  co-editor of various magazines such as Hieroglyf,
  Van Gogh and Banana Split. He has also translated
  work by Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Sand.

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Morten Søndergaard - Continued

• He has published 12 Danish books and 5
  international books. Among the international
  books are "Vinci, later," which has only been
  released in Torronto.He was nominated for the
  Nordic Council Literature Prize 2007- And have
  won numerous pizes. FxThe beatrice-prize in
  2006The Michael Strunge-prize in 1998The
  Danish radio literature-prize in 2008

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Questions

• 1) What did you learn about danes from the poem
  More and more Danes - And what do you think
  Søndergaard is trying to convey with this
  poem?2) Witch of the poems did you like best,
  and why ?3) Søndergaard said in an article from
  2005, that all of his poems is based on
  experiences - Can you feel that in any of the
  poems?

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My creative respons

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vSdgKfFkxYQ8

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Sources

• http//www.litteratursiden.dk/forfattere/morten-sø
  ndergaardhttp//da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morten_Søn
  dergaardhttp//denmark.poetryinternationalweb.or
  g/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id10168h
  ttp//www.mortensondergaard.com/