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Janne Teller (1964), Danish novelist of Austrian-German family background. She has lived and worked all over the world and now divides her time between Copenhagen, New York, and Paris. Since her 1999 debut novel, the highly acclaimed modern Nordic saga Odin's Island about political and religious fanaticism, she has published several best-selling and award winning novels, and her literature is translated into more than 13 languages.
Janne Teller's literature that also includes essays and short stories, has received numerous literary grants and awards over the years. Her philosophical and controversial books repeatedly spark heated debate in Denmark and increasingly also elsewhere.
Nothing, Teller's existential and so far only novel for young adults, is the winner of the important Best Children's Book Prize from the Danish Cultural Ministry as well as the prestigious Le Prix Libbylit 2008 for best novel for children in the French-speaking world. In February 2010 it will be published in the United States by Atheneum (Simon&Schuster).
Originally educated as a macro economist, Janne Teller has lived and worked with humanitarian and conflict resolution matters in places as diverse as Tanzania, Mozambique and Bangladesh. In 1995, she left her professional career with the United Nations to concentrate fully on her literature.
Among her other novels are The Trampling Cat (Gyldendal 2004) about the significance of history in war and love set in the 1990s Balkans, which in January 2010 was published in Germany (Bertelsmann), as well as Come (Gyldendal 2008), a brief and intense existential novel about ethics in art and modern life.
In the summer of 2010, a collection of Janne Teller's essays will be published in Denmark by Gyldendal.
- For further details on Janne Teller's books, please see Bibliography.
- For further details about Janne Teller, please see Biography.
- For contact and foreign rights, please see above or go to Rights.
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