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Place of Birth: Frederiksberg, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
About Leif Panduro
- Leif Thormod Panduro (18 April 1923 – 16 January 1977) was a Danish writer, a novelist, short story writer and dramatist.
- A dentist by profession, he began in his thirties to write stories about people who can't conform to society's rules for one reason or another.
- Rend mig i traditionerne, (Kick me in the traditions) from 1959 is about an adolescent who finally ends up in an asylum because he thinks society is mad.
- This novel was made into a film in 1979.
- Fern fra Danmark (Mr.
- Fern from Denmark) is about a man who wakes up in a hospital with amnesia but discovers more and more about a not very pleasant self. Panduro's books and plays grew increasingly pessimistic about the orderly middle-class society and its senseless norms. Panduro's books were and are still popular in Denmark.
- In 1970 he won the Danish booksellers prize De Gyldne Laurbær.
- Several of his novels were later made into films.
- His books are used in the Danish public schools.
- In 1971 he was awarded with the Grand Prize of the Danish Academy and five years later he became a member of the Danish Academy
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