Pia Tafdrup was born on 1952 in Copenhagen. She made her literary debut
in 1981 and has till now published eleven collections of poetry, a statement of poetics, Walking Over Water, 1991 and a novel, Surrender 2004. Pia Tafdrup has written two plays, Death in the Mountains, 1988, also produced for radio, The Earth Is Blue, 1991 and a libretto to a dance, The Town of Viso, 1999. She has edited two anthologies of contemporary Danish poetry and in 1989 she was elected member of The Danish Literary Academy. She received several prizes, in 1999 Nordic Council Literature Prize - Scandinavia´s most prestigious literary award for Queen´s Gate.

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