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Louis Jensen
Louis Jensen (born 19 July 1943) is a Danish author who is an innovator in the international literary trends of flash fiction, metafiction, prose poetry, and magical realism. While he has published more than 70 books for both adults and children, he is best known for his children's books, which include picture books, short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction and novels. His work is characterized by wordplay and playful experiments in form and structure, which have led critics to draw comparisons to Borges, Calvino, Gogol, and the poetry of the Oulipo movement. His work is also rooted in the fairy tale and folk tale tradition, and is deeply influenced by the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.
In 1992, Jensen embarked on his "Square Story" project, to write 1001 very short stories, each in the shape of a square. In 2014 he published his ninth volume of 100 stories; he plans to publish a tenth volume of 100 stories, and an eleventh volume with a single, final story. This work in progress has been called "one of the most radical literary projects in all of Danish literature," and the square stories have found an enthusiastic audience among adult readers as well as children.
Jensen has received multiple awards and prizes. He has been nominated several times for both of the most prestigious international awards in children's literature, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://www.alma.se/en/Nominations/Candidates/ )〕 and the Hans Christian Andersen Award. In 2010, he made the short list (5 authors, nominated from 34 countries) for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=1016 )〕 In 2002, he was chosen by the Danish National Art Foundation to be included on the roster of 275 Danish artists who are awarded an annual stipend for their lifelong contributions to the arts and culture of Denmark. In 2014, he was nominated for the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize for his eighth collection of square stories, published in 2012. The Nordic Council praised the "humour and seriousness" of Jensen's work, suggesting that his stories have "brought greetings from Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll and E. T. A. Hoffman and other great poets to all the children and adults who just wanted to read along."
== Life ==
Louis Jensen was born in Nibe, Denmark close to the Limfjord in northern Jutland. He describes his mother's childhood in the biographically based book, "En historie om seks søstre" ("A story of six sisters," Gyldendal, 2009). His family moved from Nibe to Beder, south of Aarhus, when he was 12. The move was painful for Jensen; he missed his friends and he longed for the woods and waters of his childhood home. Memories of his childhood in Nibe are found in many of his works, including his 2014 collection of short prose pieces, "Elefanterne holdt hver gang med Tarzan" ("The elephants always sided with Tarzan"), which "turns the story of Jensen's childhood into mystic stuff, into literature." As a young man, Jensen studied to be an architect, with a specialty in urban planning, and he worked as an architect and city planner for a private firm next to the Aarhus townhall. He published his first poem in 1970 in the literary magazine "Hvedekorn," and his first book of poetry in 1972.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://www.litteratursiden.dk/forfattere/louis-jensen )〕 His first novel for young readers, "Krystalmanden" (The Crystal Man), was published in 1986. Since 1992, he has worked full time as an author. He lives in Aarhus, Denmark, with his wife, the painter Elisabeth Wegger. They have three grown children, and several grandchildren.
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