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Thorkild Bjørnvig

Thorkild Bjørnvig (1918–2004) was a translator and poet.

Biography

Born at Aarhus in 1918, died in Samsø in 2004.

Thorkild Bjørnvig studied at Aarhus Katedralskole. The recorded working language is Danish.

Distinctions recorded are Danish Critics Prize for Literature, Søren Gyldendal Prize, Drassow's Legat and honorary doctorate of Lund University.

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Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.

  • Aarhus

    Birth place

  • Samsø

    Death place

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