Carsten Jensen

Carsten Jensen (born 24 July 1952, Marstal, Denmark) is a Danish author and political columnist. He first earned recognition as a literary critic for the Copenhagen daily, Politiken. His novels, including I Have Seen the World Begin (1996), deal with knowledge of the world. For this novel he won the Danish booksellers award De Gyldne Laurbær (The Golden Laurel) in 1996. The year 2006 saw the publication of his novel Vi, de druknede (We, the Drowned), a chronicle about the birth of modern Denmark, seen through the history of his hometown Marstal.

In 2009, he was awarded the Olof Palme Prize. In 2012 he was awarded the Søren Gyldendal Prize.

In 2015, Den første sten appeared, a monumental novel about the experiences of a group of Danish soldiers who have volunteered for service in Afghanistan. Through their eyes, we are presented with a wide and disturbing panorama of the war in Afghanistan. Oddly enough, the novel does not appear to have been translated into English as at August 2017. The title translates "The first stone". It has been translated into German, Der erste Stein, as well as into Norwegian and Swedish.

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