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Hans Kirk
Hans Kirk (1898–1962) was a Danish lawyer, journalist and celebrated author, who penned the best-selling novel of all-time in his native Denmark, ''The Fishermen'' (1928). Kirk was a long-time Communist Party member in Denmark and remained active until his death. In 1941, during the German occupation, Kirk and hundreds of others were arrested without charge by the Danish police in a sweep against communists and communist sympathizers. He was deported to the Danish concentration camp of Horserød, but managed to escape in 1943, just in time to avoid further deportation to the German death camps.〔Kirk's letters from his imprisonment was published later in 1967 in "''Breve fra Horserød''" (Letters from Horserød).〕
Hans Kirk's novels, which in addition to ''The Fishermen'' include ''The Day Laborers'' and ''The New Times'', reflect Kirk's Marxist-influenced beliefs. His style is noted for subtle punctuation expressions. Perhaps the most striking is the absence of quotation marks, a practice that obscures the presence of narrator/author. Long dashes are used to mark a change of time and the organization of his novels do not use chapter headings, just blank spaces between paragraphs.
Although Hans Kirk was a prolific author - in his lifetime Kirk produced eight novels, as well as short stories, essays, and radio plays - he remains relatively unknown in the United States. With the recent translations of ''The Fishermen'', ''The Day Laborers'', ''The New Times'', and ''The Slave'' by University of Iowa professor Marc Linder, Kirk's novels are now available for the first time in English.
==''The Day Laborers'' and ''The New Times''==
''The Day Laborers'' and ''The New Times'' chronicle the industrialization of an agrarian society in early 20th century Denmark. Unlike the characters in ''The Fishermen'', the majority of the characters are not particularly religious. The novels were initially conceived of as being part of a trilogy, but Kirk's writing was interrupted by the Nazi occupation of Denmark in 1940. He was interned by the Danish police and later Gestapo as an enemy of Nazi Germany in 1941. He completed the manuscript for the third novel while interned, but it was discovered by the Nazis and destroyed. Despite subsequent attempts, Kirk never managed to fully reconstruct it.
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