Stig Dalager

Dalager's work concentrates on the existential conditions of both ordinary people and contemporary and historical known persons, with moments of psychological soul-searching expressed within a multitude of differing conditions. Dalager's diverse gallery of characters ranges from the woman of his Sarajevo monologue, I Count the Hours, to Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen in the play Lord and Shadow and the novel "Journey in blue"; from the dissident Count Claus Stauffenberg and Adolf Hitler in his novel To dage i juli (Two Days in July)to dr. Simon Wiesenthal in his novel "Labyrinten" ("The Labyrinth"). the 11th of sept.

Three of his latest prose-works were the novels Journey in blue published in 2004 (English 2006), The Labyrinth in 2006 and Falling Shadows in 2007. Dalager's 2013 novel Øjeblikkets evighed (Eternity in the Moment) and his 2015 Rejse uden ende (Journey without End) are his most recent to have been published.

The poetry cycle Århaus-elegi (Aarhus eulogy) of 1986 represents his poetic breakthrough. His most recent collection, Himlen åbner sig (The Sky Opens), was published in 2000.

In 1982 Dalager left the University of Copenhagen to live as a writer, which he has continued to do since. He has written poetry, fiction, drama and essays. Several of his poems and novels have been translated into other languages, and he has seen his plays staged in Moscow, New York City, Berlin, and other cities around the world.

Dalager was born in Copenhagen in the post-war period of the 1950s, a time of painful remembrances of the Second World War, continued economic restrictions, and a growing optimism about the future. His parents were grocers throughout the 1950s and 1960s, until his father was struck by Parkinson's disease. He describes his radically changing family structure as he and his two younger brothers moved with their parents to the provincial town of Herning in Jutland, near to where his father had been raised. There he graduated from high school, after which he attended the University of Århus, where he received his master's degree and a Ph.D. in comparative literature. It was there also where he became involved in the student movement of the 1970s. With his then fiancée, Anne Marie Mai, he wrote several books on literature, including a two-volume study of Danish women writers from the Middle Ages to contemporary times.

Stig Dalager (born 1952) is a Danish writer. He is the author of 58 literary works of all kinds, mostly novels and plays, of which several have been translated or staged internationally. His works include I Count the Hours, a monologue for a woman in Sarajevo (1993), staged in 12 countries; The Dream, play (premiered in New York City 1999 starring Ingmar Bergman actress Bibi Andersson, since staged in Moscow and Łódź); Two Days in July (a 2004 novel about the German officers' rebellion against the Nazi regime on July 20, 1944), Journey in Blue; a biographical novel about Hans Christian Andersen (published in 15 countries and languages and nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award 2008); The Labyrinth (a 2006 novel situated in Vienna anno 1993-1994) "Land of shadows" (a 2007 novel situated in New York on 9-11 on the World Trade Center); and "Slowly Comes the Light" (a 2009 novel, situated in Baghdad, New York and London 2004-2005). In 2012 the novel "The blue light" about Marie Curie was published and in 2013 "Eternity of the Moment", a novel about Søren Kierkegaard. 2015 his novel about Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg "Journey without End" was published and in 2017 his novel "Woman in a Century" about Elisabeth of Bohemia and his tale "The last days of the Rabby", also there was a worldpremiere of his play "Journey in light and Shadow" in New York. All in all published and staged in 30 countries, among them Great Britain, USA, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt, Russia, China and Japan.