Pia Juul (; 30 May 1962 – 30 September 2020) was a Danish poet, prose writer, and translator. She received several prizes and was a member of the

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. She also taught at the writing school ''Forfatterskolen'' in Copenhagen.

Biography

Juul was born in

Korsør Korsør is a town in Zealand (Denmark), Zealand, Denmark. It is located in Slagelse Municipality. Until 2007 Korsør was the seat of Korsør Municipality. The town is located west of Slagelse, north-west of Skælskør and connects to Nyborg thr ...

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, in 1962. Her parents were

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teachers Kurt Holger Juul and Inge Kærsgaard Hansen. She grew up in

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before moving to the village Rørbæk in

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at the age of six with her parents, her brother, and her younger sister. Juul graduated from Hobro Gymnasium in 1981 and enrolled in English studies at

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, but later dropped out. Her first collection of poems, ''levende og lukket'', was published in 1985. Besides writing, she translated English, American, and Swedish literature for a living. She gave birth to a daughter in 1986. From 1989 to 1993, Juul was the co-editor of Danish literary magazine '. She later served as a board member for ''Danske Skønlitterære Forfattere'' (Danish Fiction Writers) from 1993 to 1995 and was part of the

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's literary committee from 1996. Juul was awarded the

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by the

in 2000, and became a member of the Academy herself in 2005. She started working as a teacher at in the fall of 2005. In 2009, she received the for her novel '' Mordet på Halland''. Following the global surveillance disclosures in 2013, Juul joined over a thousand writers worldwide including

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and T. C. Boyle in signing an appeal to create an international convention on

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to prevent governments and corporations from abusing technology for surveillance purposes. She died in 2020 at the age of 58.

Bibliography

*''levende og lukket'', poems, 1985 *''i brand måske'', poems, 1987 *''Forgjort'', poems, 1989 *''Skaden'', novel, 1990 *''En død mands nys'', poems,1993 *''sagde jeg, siger jeg'', poems, 1999 *''Mit forfærdelige ansigt'', short stories, 2001 *''Gespenst & andre spil'', drama, 2002 *''Opgang'', short stories 2002 *''Jeg vil hellere dø'', short stories 2003 *''Lidt ligesom mig'', 2004 *''Dengang med hunden'', short stories, 2005 *''Helt i skoven'', poems, 2005 *''På jagt'', children's book, 2005 *''Mordet på Halland'', novel, 2009 *''Radioteateret'', poems, 2010 *''Et liv med lys'', biography, 2011 *''Af sted, til hvile'', short stories episodes, 2012

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Juul, Pia 2020 deaths Danish women poets People from Korsør 1962 births 20th-century Danish poets 21st-century Danish poets 20th-century Danish women writers 21st-century Danish women writers 20th-century Danish short story writers 21st-century Danish short story writers Danish women short story writers Danish children's writers Danish women children's writers Danish children's poets