Janne Teller

In December 2013, Teller helped organise a petition of 560 world-renowned contemporary authors, protesting against mass surveillance in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations. Several Nobel laureates were signatories to the open appeal to governments, corporations and the United Nations

Originally educated as a macro economist, Janne Teller worked for the United Nations and the European Union in conflict resolution and humanitarian issues around the World, particularly in Africa. She devoted herself full-time to fiction writing in 1995. For several years, she was a member of the Board of the Danish Fiction Writers’ Association and of Danish PEN, as well as of the Editorial Board of the Danish version of the intellectual magazine, Lettre International. She has lived in a wide variety of places from Brussels, Paris, Milan, to Dar es Salaam and Maputo. Presently, she resides in New York City.

• Everything, short story collection (2014) • African Roads, novella (2013) • Nothing, novel (2010) • Come, novel (2008) • Europa, novel (2004) • The Trampling Cat, novel (2004) • War, What if it Were Here, novel (2004) • Odin's Island, novel (1999) Other books: • Why?, Short story, education booklet, Gyldendal 2007 Original story in French: Le Monde de l’Education, France, 2002 • Write Your Devil, (co-editor and contributor), People’sPress, 2004

Essays: • ’Am I a European?’, Der Tagesspiegel, Germany (June 2018) • ’Between Good and Evil’, Institute of Art and Ideas 2017, UK (2017) & Weekendavisen, Denmark (2018) • ’European Hygge ’, Göttinger Tageblatt Sonntag, Germany (December 2016) • ’Thank God for the Burden of History 2016’, FAZ Germany (2016) & Politiken Denmark (2016) • ’The Human Compass: When Extremism Becomes the North Star’, Institute of Art & Ideas, UK & Information Denmark (2016) • ’Ode to a Land - Anthology: American Writers on Palestine’, Or Books, US (2015) • ‘Tea with Turgenjev’, FAZ, Germany, (2014) • ‘The Golden Future of the Non-Gilded European Youth’, Cicero, Germany, (2014) • ‘Du hast die Wahl’, Austausch Kulturmagasin, Germany (2013) • ‘Schreiben für den jungen Menschen in uns’, Voland & Quist, Germany (2013) • ‘Vox Populi: Money Talks’, Max Joseph, Germany (2013) • ‘Europa. Wer bist Du? Wer möchtest Du sein?’, Politiken, Denmark (2012); Die Welt, Germany (2012) • ‘Zwischen die Zeilen’, Lettre Internationale, Germany (2012) • ‘Der Spion Nebenan’, Cicero, Germany (2011) • ‘Long live Denmark’, Politiken, Denmark, (2009) • ‘The Power of Art, the Art of Power’, Politiken, Denmark (2009) • ‘Why no Guru is a True Guru’, Corriere della Sera, Italy (2007) • ‘On Quality and Literature’, Danish Teachers’ Magazine, Denmark (2007) • ‘To See the One Who Sees You’, Exhibition at Kunstforeningen GL Strand in Copenhagen, Denmark (2006) • ‘May Allah have Mercy on Our Country’, Information, Denmark (2006) • ‘Walking Naked’, Lettre Internationale, Denmark (2005) • ‘Our Different Realities’, Lettre Internationale, Denmark (2005) • ‘Doubt’, Politikens Forlag, Denmark (2005) • ‘Between the Lines’, Information, Denmark (2005) • ‘The Poverty Law’, Brøndums Danske Lov, Brøndums Forlag (2000)