Thorkild Hansen - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	09-January-1927
Place of Birth	Ordrup (Gentofte Municipality)
Nationality	Denmark
Profession	Writer, Novelist, Author
Thorkild Hansen was a Danish novelist known for his Slave Trilogy. He also did works concerning Knut Hamsun and travel writing. In 1971 he won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. He is known as one of the best and most read novelists in Danish literature and had it not been for his premature death he surely would have received many more accolades than bestowed upon him during his lifetime.

Awards by Thorkild Hansen

Check all the awards nominated and won by Thorkild Hansen.

1971

Nordic Council's Literature Prize

Honored for : Islands of Slaves

(Denmark)

Nominations 1971 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize	Islands of Slaves Denmark

1969

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize	Ships of slaves Denmark

1966

Nominations 1966 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize	The Way to Hudson Bay: The Life and Times of Jens Munk Denmark

1963

Nominations 1963 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Nordic Council's Literature Prize	Arabia Felix, the Danish expedition of 1761-1767 Denmark

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