Pia Tafdrup

Pia Tafdrup (1952, Denmark) is one of Denmark's most important and widely translated poets. She grew up in rural environment in the north of the island of Zealand. She received her MA from the University of Copenhagen in 1977. She has written more than twenty works, mainly collections of poetry, but also fiction. She makes her living exclusively from writing, and since 1999 has received a lifetime grant from the Danish National Endowment for the Arts. In 1998 she was a guest at Vilenica, and in 2005 she appeared at the Trnovy Tercets. She is the recipient of several literary prizes. In 1999, she was awarded the Nordic Council Prize for Literature, Scandinavia's most prestigious literary prize. She is a member of the Danish Academy of Literature and a Knight of the Order of Dannebrog.