biography
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Andersen, Hans Christian
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| lived:
| (1805–75)
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| biography:
| Writer, one of the world's great story-tellers, born in Odense, SC Denmark. The son of a poor shoemaker, after his father's death he worked in a factory, but soon displayed a talent for poetry. He became better known by his Walk to Amager, a literary satire in the form of a humorous narrative. In 1830 he published the first collected volume of his Poems, and in 1831 a second, under the title of Fantasies and Sketches. He wrote many other works, but it is such children's stories as ‘The Tin Soldier’, ‘The Tinderbox’, ‘The Snow Queen’, and ‘The Ugly Duckling’, collected in Tales Told for Children (1835), that have gained him lasting fame and delighted children throughout the world. |
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