The publisher Gyldendal writes this on the social media X.
Malene Sølvsten grew up in a cultural and creative home in Brønderslev, where art was cultivated and where both parents were school teachers. A home that was adorned with books, where paper and pencils were on the shelf the children could reach, and where Malene’s older sister read stories to her throughout her upbringing. Fantasy books like the Narnia tales.
Malene Sølvsten’s awards and nominations
Nominated for the Readers’ Book Award, 2016
The Orla award, for Best empathy, 2017
Edvard P. Prize, for Book of the Year, 2018
Nominated for the Readers’ Book Award, 2018
Nominated for Politiken’s literature prize, 2018
Statens Kunstfonds 3-year work grant, 2019
Der Buxtehuder Bulle, for the best youth book of the year, 2022
Source: malenesolvsten.com
Therefore, it is perhaps not so surprising that Malene Sølvsten tried to create a future for herself within the world of art. She attended art colleges and also tried to enter the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts three times.
Malene Sølvsten’s books
- The Whisper of the Ravens Trilogy
- The world is crashing
- The Blood of Life
- Predicting Vølve
- Autumn night
That’s why she started studying to be a midwife, but even then they ran fast in the corridors, and she instead became an economist and a permanent employee at the Ministry of Finance, where she was later moved to the communications department.
Then it was the authorship that took over, and she wrote the series about the Ravens’ Whisper, whose fantasy world became her path to success and, among other things, won her the recognized German literature prize Buxtehudes Bulle in 2021. Her books have been published in Denmark, among others, in the USA and Germany.
Malene Sølvsten died after a short illness.
2024-10-22 19:24:00
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