Ursula Andkjær Olsen Biography

Ursula Andkjær Olsen was born in 1970 in Copenhagen. She studied music theory and philosophy and was a student at the Writers’ School in her home city from 1997 until 1999.

Of the relationship between prose and poetry, Andkjær Olsen writes:

"The world as it is seen through human beings consists of coordinates of various kinds . . . Poetry tries to find alternative structures, alternative coordinates to bind things together, and one of the most important basic principles of those other coordinates must probably – in spite of everything – still be called beauty. These alternative principles may be related to image, sound or rhythm, for example.