Morten Piil
Morten Piil was a Danish writer and film critic. He received a Bodil Honorary Award in 2002 for his "long-standing contribution to Danish film literature".
Piil was a film critic at Berlingske Tidende 1962-67, and has since then been at Dagbladet Information where he has also written about literature and rock music. He was a film consultant at the Danish Film Institute 1975-77, and 1968-96 consultant for DR's film department.
Piil has written several reference works on Danish cinema. His three books published on Gyldendal, Danske filmskuespillere , a monograph on 525 actors active in the period 1930-2001, Danske filminstruktører , detailing 120 Danish film directors active between 1930 and 2005, and Gyldendals danske filmguide , a description of 1200 Danish feature films — virtually every major film release from 1930 to 2008, poses with a total volume of approximately 1,800 pages the most comprehensive survey of Danish film and the main figures behind it.
In 2003, Information published Film på hjernen: 40 års bedste biografoplevelser a 664-page selection of his film criticism from the last 40 years.
Piil has translated three works of Vladimir Nabokov to Danish.Selected works
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