Naja Marie Aidt is a Danish language poet and writer.
She was born in Egedesminde, Greenland, and was brought up partly in Greenland and partly in the Vesterbro area of Copenhagen. In 1991, she published her first book of poetry, Så længe jeg er ung. Since 1993, she has been a full-time writer. In 1994, Naja Marie Aidt was awarded the Danish Fund for the Endowment of the Arts 3-year bursary.
Aidt won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2008, for her short stories collection Bavian. Bavian also earned her the Danish Kritikerprisen for 2006.
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