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Janne Teller

Janne Teller
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Janne Teller

Janne Teller was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, and has written several award-winning novels that have been translated into a number of languages. Nothing is the winner of the prestigious Best Children’s Book Award from the Danish Cultural... Read full bio

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Q. What is your motto or maxim?
A. Courage is to do what I fear doing
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My life in 8 words: "Nomadic, Intense: Falling - Getting up - Learning - Changing - Falling ..."
News:
Nothing has won an award
Sep 26, 2012
Nothing will be released on March 20, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Mar 20, 2012
Nothing is now available in Trade Paperback
Mar 20, 2012
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Nothing has won an award
Jul 15, 2011
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Nothing has won an award
Apr 01, 2011
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Nothing has won an award
Apr 01, 2011
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Nothing has won an award
Apr 01, 2011
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Nothing has won an award
Feb 05, 2011
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Nothing has won an award
Feb 05, 2011
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Nothing has won an award
Feb 05, 2011
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Nothing has won an award
Feb 05, 2011
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Nothing has won an award
Jan 01, 2011
May 25, 2010
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Janne Teller Revealed

Q. What is your motto or maxim? A. Courage is to do what I fear doing Q. Who is your favorite fictional hero? A. The life time prisoner in Faulkner's Wild Palms who saves a pregnant woman from the floods even though it costs him his one possibility for freedom. Q. If you could be any person or thing, who or what would it be? A. A cat Q. What’s your fantasy profession? A. Animal psychologist Q. If you could acquire any talent, what would it be? A. Writing faster Learn more about Janne Teller

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PublishersWeekly.com, January 24, 2013
...difficult texts that will coax readers beyond their comfort zones (for example, the controversial Danish novel Rien by Janne Teller, which was published in the U.S. as Nothing). For Barrau, a YA book should not necessarily provide the answers for...
New Indian Express, January 5, 2013
...On Janne Teller’s bookshelf you’ll find Albert Camus, Knut Hamsun and Herman Hesse—the masters of the kind of literature she’s drawn to—simple and poetical, yet philosophically deep. Janne Teller...
The Scotsman, August 23, 2012
...its feet.” Finding emotional truth in collectively produced work “is like finding love in an orgy,” added chair Janne Teller. This has been a curiously consensual conference, free of open feuding or ad hominem attacks. Maybe that’s how writers...
Guardian.co.uk, August 22, 2012
...can follow her on Twitter at @authorsaragrant. She also blogs as part of the EDGE.1. Nothing by Janne Teller Pierre Anthon stands up in class and declares "nothing matters". His classmates decide to prove him wrong with tragic and astonishing...
The Scotsman, August 21, 2012
...in the UK) said that internationalism enabled an opening of gates between nations from which she had benefited. Janne Teller (Danish, but with Austrian and German ancestors, now living in New York), argued that national labels were limiting: “When I...
The Edinburgh Reporter, July 23, 2012
...fantasy writer China Miéville will address The Future of the Novel in a session chaired by Denmark’s Janne Teller. A further 40 delegates, from as far afield as Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, Australia and the Dominican Republic, will join the keynote...
The Edinburgh Reporter, July 17, 2012
...EMINENT EGYPTIAN WRITER AHDAF SOUEIF CONFIRMS HER APPEARANCE AT THE EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Following concerns that Ahdaf Soueif would be unable to leave Egypt due to the current political situation, the Edinburgh International Book...
New Indian Express, January 5, 2013
...On Janne Teller’s bookshelf you’ll find Albert Camus, Knut Hamsun and Herman Hesse—the masters of the kind of literature she’s drawn to—simple and poetical, yet philosophically deep. Janne Teller...
The Scotsman, August 23, 2012
...its feet.” Finding emotional truth in collectively produced work “is like finding love in an orgy,” added chair Janne Teller. This has been a curiously consensual conference, free of open feuding or ad hominem attacks. Maybe that’s how writers...
Guardian.co.uk, August 22, 2012
...can follow her on Twitter at @authorsaragrant. She also blogs as part of the EDGE.1. Nothing by Janne Teller Pierre Anthon stands up in class and declares "nothing matters". His classmates decide to prove him wrong with tragic and astonishing...
The Scotsman, August 21, 2012
...in the UK) said that internationalism enabled an opening of gates between nations from which she had benefited. Janne Teller (Danish, but with Austrian and German ancestors, now living in New York), argued that national labels were limiting: “When I...
Telegraph, July 7, 2012
...in the room, led by Asne Seierstad, the journalist who wrote The Bookseller of Kabul, and the novelist Janne Teller from Denmark. The shadow of 9/11 still plays, but so does last summers Norwegian massacre. For some these glib statements sat uneasily...
Telegraph, July 7, 2012
...in the room, led by Asne Seierstad, the journalist who wrote The Bookseller of Kabul, and the novelist Janne Teller from Denmark. The shadow of 9/11 still plays, but so does last summers Norwegian massacre. For some these glib statements sat uneasily...