I'm a writer and lecturer, and I'm currently working on the novel "Bernini's Eye" about the Italian Baroque artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Bernini began carving marble as a boy and has left his fingerprints on almost everything in Rome:

It takes him a long time to walk from Via Liberiana to St. Peter's Basilica, and the city he walks through is far from what we now associate with Rome. There is still no fountain with the four rivers in the middle of Piazza Navona, no oval square in front of St. Peter's Basilica, no bronze canopy over the high altar inside, no angels on the bridge over to Castel Sant'Angelo, no elephant carrying an obelisk in Piazza Minerva, no woman floating in ecstasy bathed in golden light. All this and much more of what you envision when you think of Rome is still there, along with the things in the boy's backpack, the lunch box and a lemon."

A lecture on the novel "BERNINI'S EYE" is both an introduction to the artist Bernini, but equally a story of a dramatic life, passionate love, raw rivalry and why art is a necessity. A lecture about Rome then and now.

Hent pdf. med mere info vedr. foredrag om Bernini.

Lecture on Henrik Nordbrandt's writing

Besides having written a thesis on Henrik Nordbrandt at the University of Copenhagen - I am lucky enough to have been his editor and close friend.

Nordbrandt's most famous November poem: "The year has 16 months: November/December, January, February, March, April/May, June, July, August, September/October, November, November, November, November" has become his signature poem. But Nordbrandt encompasses and embraces so much more.

Nordbrandt was the poet of longing, the traveler, the seeker, the mourner, the despairing. The excellence of paradox. Nordbrandt's vast lyrical oeuvre is a clear and trembling voice in Danish poetry. An introduction to his universe contains both personal memories of the poet, who is unfortunately no longer here, I will talk about the creation of his Turkish cookbook "Damelår og andre specialiteter", his relationship with ghosts, but first and foremost I will share my deep joy in the poet's precise and trembling presence, about love, longing and loss. About being a trembling human being. About the trembling of the hand.

I have an MA in Nordic Literature from the University of Copenhagen and have worked as an editor and publishing manager at Brøndums forlag for many years.

Here I worked with Inger Christensen, Peter Seeberg, Henrik Nordbrandt, Villy Sørensen, Peter Øvig Knudsen, Svend Åge Madsen and others. When I made my debut with the epistolary novel "Prioritaire", I moved to the other side of the desk and became a full-time writer. But before all the books, I trained as a circus artist at the Ecole Nationale du Cirque in Paris and worked in theater for a number of years. But that's another story.

Read the chronicle on the occasion of Henrik Nordbrandt's death.