Author Charlotte Strandgaard is dead. She turned 78 years old.
Strandgaard died at Glostrup Hospital surrounded by those closest to him, writes Politiken.
She made her debut in 1965 with the collection of poems “Catalog”. In 2021, together with Johanne Kirstine Fall, she published her latest book “Stretch your body towards mine”.
Between the two, more than 50 novels, collections of poems and other publications were published, bearing Charlotte Strandgaard’s name.
She was born in Brørup in 1943 and grew up in Aarhus in a home where literature filled a lot.
The same year as her writing debut, she trained as a librarian.
Her books were called “sober and gripping” and her messages “sympathetic and necessary” in a 70-year-old birthday portrait in Politiken.
Throughout her career, she managed to receive a number of awards and scholarships. These include Morten Nielsen’s Memorial Scholarship in 1972, the Statens Kunstfonds Scholarship in 1986 and Thit Jensen’s Author Scholarship in 1989.
According to authorweb.dk, Charlotte Strandgaard’s authorship has dealt with everything that can be difficult to talk about.
She has written on everything from bodily topics like abortion, sex and menstruation to societal taboos like substance abuse, eating disorders and mental illness.
On July 6, 1970, Charlotte Strandgaard was part of a group that also included Klaus Rifbjerg and Ebbe Kløvedal Reich. On the steps of the Ministry of Culture, they smoked cannabis in an action in protest of the deprivation of state aid to the theater group “Secret Service”.
In addition to her fiction writing, Charlotte Strandgaard has also dealt with issues such as bullying, racism and abused children.
Basically, we are dealing here with a writer who is interested in the lives that are lived in the margins of society and the voices that are most often excluded from the common conversation. It writes authorweb.dk about Strandgaard.
And describes her book “Hans” from 2014 as an almost unbearably beautiful, personal and complex tale.