The Wild Swans Far, far away where the swallows fly when we have winter, there lived a King who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elisa. The eleven brothers, Princes all, each went to school with a star at his breast and a sword at his side. They wrote with pencils of diamond upon golden […]
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Jack The Dullard Award
About The Award During the Hans Christian Andersen festival in Odense, a total of six awards is given, including Jack The Dullard Award as one of the small prices. The award will be given through newspaper Fyens Stiftstidende, which continuously through the festival encourages its readers to submit proposals. The award is given to the […]
The Snow Queen
About The Award During the Hans Christian Andersen festival in Odense, a total of six awards is given, including The Snow Queen as one of the smaller prices. The Talent Award The Snow Queen is given to a young writer with a special talent for literature or play with word. Jury Elisabeth Møller Jensen, director […]
The Two Virgos
About The Award During the Hans Christian Andersen festival in Odense, a total of six awards is given, including Two Virgos as one of the smaller prices. The design award The Two Virgins is given to one/several young craftartist(s) or designer(s) whose artistic expression helps visualize “The Magic of Things”. That is the universe, the […]
Travel Companion
About The Award During the Hans Christian Andersen festival in Odense, a total of six awards is given, including the Travel Companion as one of the small prices. The traveling award The Travel companion is awarded in the form of a travel grant to a student at an educational institution in Denmark. Jury Birgitte Bogh-Sorensen, […]
Flowers from Little Ida
About The Award During the Hans Christian Andersen festival in Odense, a total of six awards is given, including The Flowers from Little Ida, one of the smaller awards. Flowers from Little Ida is given to a person who shows us garden art, who enriches and adds something special, a person who leads us into […]
The Nightingale
About The Award During the Hans Christian Andersen festival in Odense, a total of six awards is given, including The Nightingale as the main award. The award consists of 400,000 kr. and a statue made by the Chinese artist Yue Minjun. Jury Art historian Bente Scavenius Professor Johs. Nørregaard Frandsen Director of KVINFO Elisabeth Møller […]
H.C. Andersens Help
Hans Christian Andersen scholarship to a diligent schoolboy in Odense is ordained by testament from the poet. In 2007, however, the grant will also be awarded to a schoolgirl, who deserves the honor. The poet himself decided, that a grant of 1000 reichsthaler would be established after his death. The return, approx. 40 reichsthaler a […]
Danish Authors Association Award
Danish Authors Association’s Hans Christian Andersen Grant is a grant that is awarded by the Danish Writers Association in memory of and appreciation for the writer H. C. Andersen. Grant funding comes from the Ministry of Culture. The grant is awarded primarily to writers and scientists, who by their activities related to H. C. Andersen, […]
H. C. Andersen Society Medal
HCA Society in Copenhagen is a literary society that annually awards a HCA prize. The award consists of a medal and a small amount of money and is awarded to researchers, illustrators, actors and others who convey the works of H. C. Andersen. Hans Christian Andersen Society in the Copenhagen Cultural Fund is handled by […]
Andersen in Denmark
