Harald Herdal (real name is Nielsen ) ( Dat. Harald Herdal ; July 1, 1900 , Copenhagen - December 28, 1978 , Copenhagen ) - Danish writer, essayist and poet.
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Biography
Born in a working class family. From his youth he became a convinced socialist ; for some time in the late 1920s he was a member of the Communist Party. I tried many different working professions, was unemployed.
Creativity
Self-taught. He made his debut as a poet in 1929.
Proletarian writer. In poetic and prose works he described the life of the social lower classes, the working quarters of Copenhagen . A sense of class solidarity and intransigence towards bourgeois morality is inherent in his heroes. He wrote about the heroes of the Resistance Movement during the Second World War (Unconquered Man, 1949).
The author of collections of lyric poems (The New Spirit, 1929; Eros and Death, 1931, Flowering Thorns, 1941, The Nightingale, 1949, The Dreamer, 1951, etc.). At the center of H. Herdahl’s novels “Still It Is Worth Living” (1934), “Unconquered Man” (1949), “Cloudy Summer Days” (1952) - acute social and political issues. He also owns autobiographical books - “Childhood” (1944), “Young Years” (1945), “Years of Learning” (1946), “July and August 1914” (I960), several collections of short stories and essays, and an essay book “Between Books” and portraits ”(1970).
Winner of several literary prizes.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 LIBRIS - 2012.
- ↑ http://www.litteraturpriser.dk/aut/HHaraldHerdal.htm
Links
- Harald Herdal (Danish)
- Harald Herdal (Danish)