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.. .the earliest and noblest example of an author who combines a powerful imagination and a wistfully tender nature with all the finesse of the most highly-developed realism. -- Hermann Hesse

.. .the earliest and noblest example of an author who combines a powerful imagination and a wistfully tender nature with all the finesse of the most highly-developed realism. -- Hermann Hesse In Jacobsen we have the earliest and noblest example of an author who combines a powerful imagination and a wistfully tender nature with all the finesse of the most highly developed realism. -- Hermann Hesse Jacobsen has made a more profound impression on me emotionally than anything else I ve read in recent years. -- Sigmund Freud 'In Jacobsen we have the earliest and noblest example of an author who combines a powerful imagination and a wistfully tender nature with all the finesse of the most highly developed realism. Hermann Hesse 'Jacobsen has made a more profound impression on me emotionally than anything else I ve read in recent years.' Sigmund Freud 'One of the best books I've ever read. Delius

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Jens Peter Jacobsen was born in Denmark in 1847. He studied botany at the University of Copenhagen and he translated Darwin's On The Origin of the Species and The Descent of Man into Danish. He published in 1872 his first work, the short story Mogens. One year later while travelling in Italy, he was diagnosed with TB. He wrote 2 novels Marie Grubbe (1876)and Niels Lyhne(1880)as well as some poems and short stories, before dying in 1885 at the age of 38. Mikka Haugaard was born in Denmark in 1953. Her father is Danish and her mother American and she grew up bi-lingual. She studied classics at Cambridge University and did research in Roman history. She now teaches classics and psychology at a London school and lectures for the Open University. She is married with two children. She is the author of two novels: Gabriel's Bureau and the Dream Maker and translated Marie Grubbe by Jens Peter Jacobsen for Dedalus which was published in 2015.

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