Peer Hultberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Author, psychoanalyst
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Place of Birth: Vangede, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
About Peer Hultberg
- Peer Hultberg (8 November 1935 – 20 December 2007) was a Danish author and psychoanalyst. Peer Hultberg was born in Vangede northwest of Copenhagen and lived in Horsens and Viborg during his child and teenage years.
- From 1953 he studied at the University of Copenhagen (French, musicology and Slavic languages).
- He lived for some years in Skopje and Warsaw and then moved to London in 1959.
- He continued his studies of Slavic languages at the University of London and achieved a B.A.
- in 1963. Hultberg was a lecturer of Polish language and literature at the University of London for a couple of years while writing his thesis on the literary style of Waclaw Berent.
- Having received his Ph.D., he moved back to his native country as a lecturer of the same subject at the University of Copenhagen in 1968.
- In 1973 he started studying psychoanalysis at the C.
- G.
- Jung Institute in Zürich getting a diploma in 1978. He moved to Hamburg and worked as a psychoanalyst for several years. His writing career started in 1968 when he publiced two novels, but his breakthrough came with Requiem from 1985, a novel of 611 pages and 537 chapters.
- His other major achievement is Byen og verden from 1992 for which he was awarded the Danish Critics' Prize and later Nordic Council's Literature Prize.
- In 2004, Hultberg received the Grand Prize of the Danish Academy.
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