Thorkild Bjørnvig Biography | Poet

Thorkild Strange Bjørnvig (Danish : ['tkil 'bjnvi] ) (February 2, 1918, Aarhus, Denmark – March 5, 2004, Samsø ) was a Danish author and poet. His 1955 collection of poems Anubis is a part of the Danish Culture Canon. He studied literature at the University of Copenhagen and his prize winning MA thesis (1947) was about Rainer Maria Rilke whose works he later translated into Danish. With Bjørn Poulsen he founded the literary journal Heretica as a reaction against the modernist and realist wave in Danish literature that had prevailed in the years before the War.