Bjørn Rasmussen (writer)


Bjørn Rasmussen is a Danish poet and writer. His first novel Huden er det elastiske hylster der omgiver hele legemet appeared in 2011. A second novel Pynt followed in 2013. A key figure in contemporary Danish poetry, Rasmussen published his first poetry collection Ming in 2015.
He won the 2011 Montana Literary Award and the 2016 European Union Prize for Literature for his debut novel, which is set to be translated into a number of European languages.