Scandinavian Studies Commons^™

Literary Denmark has spent the past two years searching within itself for a kind of literature common elsewhere in Europe but sadly lacking at home. “Poesi og prosa, der ser den danske virkelighed med nye øjne,” [Poetery and prose which sees Danish reality with new eyes] was the phrase that the Gyldendal publishing house and the Berlingske Tidende newspaper used to describe the goal of their competition Nye Stemmer, a “litteraturkonkurrence for alle med anden etnisk og kulturel baggrund” [literary competition for all those with a different ethnic and cultural background.] The resulting volume by the same name, published in …