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Madame Nielsen

Contributor

Madame Nielsen

Madame Nielsen is a novelist, artist, performer, stage director and world history enactor, composer, and chanteuse, and is multigendered....

Madame Nielsen is the author of numerous literary works, including a trilogy (The Suicide Mission, The Sovereign, and Fall of the Great Satan), the bildungsroman The Invasion, The Supreme Being, and, most recently, The Endless Summer. Madame Nielsen is translated into nine languages and has received several literary prizes. The autobiographical novel My Encounters with the Great Authors of Our Nation was published in 2013 under her boy’s-name, Claus Beck-Nielsen, and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2014.

First Read—From “The Endless Summer”

By Madame Nielsen

Madame Nielsen’s The Endless Summer is a passionate love story about a Danish woman and a much younger Portuguese artist. Translated from the Danish by Gaye Kynoch and forthcoming from Open Letter…

Translated by Gaye Kynoch

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First Read—From “The Endless Summer”