Halfdan Wedel Rasmussen (29 January 1915 in Copenhagen – 2 March 2002) was a Danish poet. He was known for his literary nonsense verse for children and his serious adult writings about social issues and human rights. He was awarded with the Ministry of Culture's children book prize (Kulturministeriets Børnebogspris) in 1965.
Danish writer (1915–2002)
Career
Rasmussen was a resistance fighter during the German occupation. He became very well known and respected as a poet, nearly becoming a national poet of Denmark.
One of his poems, Ikke Bødlen, was featured as one of the best poems on Human Rights on a 1979 book published by Amnesty International Denmark, and would be later translated into the first verse of Roger Waters' song Each Small Candle.[1]
Politics
Rasmussen joined the anarcho-syndicalist movement at an early age, and from his 20s and on-wards he contributed to the syndicalist weekly Arbejdet ("Work"). In the early 60s, he helped edit and publish the memoirs of revolutionary syndicalist Christian Christensen. Later on Rasmussen was also active in the Danish anti-nuclear movement, the campaigns against EU membership, and in Amnesty International.[2]
Bibliography
Vorherres Rosa, short story in Det første møde
Soldat eller menneske (1941)
Kejser Næsegrus og Kæmpesmeden: eventyr (1943)
Det lukkede ansigt (1943)
Solen, maanen og stjernerne: eventyr (1943)
Digte under besættelsen (1945 )
Længsel, poems in Der brænder en ild (1945)
Min barndom var en by (1945)
Korte skygger (1946)
De afsindige (1948)
Fem små troldebørn, (together with Ib Spang Olsen, 1948)
Gaden (1948)
På knæ for livet (1948)
Den som har set september (1949)
Norske nutidsdigte: En antologi af ung lyrik (1949)
Tullerulle tappenstreg spiste gummibolde (1949)
Aftenland (1950)
Lange Peter Madsen (1950)
Forventning (1951)
Den lille frække Frederik og andre børnerim (1951)
Tosserier: 1. samling (1951)
Tosserier: 2. samling (1952)
Digte i udvalg (1953)
Tosserier: 3. samling (1953)
Skoven (together with Ernst Clausen, 1954)
Tosserier: 4. samling (1954)
Hemmeligt forår (1955)
Kasper Himmelspjæt (1955)
Tosserier: 5. samling (1955)
I mørket: et digt (1956)
Tosserier: 6. samling (1956)
Himpegimpe og andre børnerim (1957)
Torso: Digte og tegninger fra Grækenland (Torso: Poems and drawings from Greece) (1957)
Tosserier: 7. samling (1957)
Lyriske installationer (1958)
Noget om sundbusser: Et tosseri (1959)
Pumpegris og andre børnerim (1959)
Digte (Poems) (1960)
Tosserier i udvalg (1960)
Lokumsdigte (1961)
Stilheden: Skitser fra Grønland (1962)
Med solen i ryggen (together with Ivan Malinovski, Erik Stinus and others 1963)
Børnerim (collection of Tullerulle Tappenstreg, Kasper Himmelspjæt, Himpegimpe and Pumpegris, 1964)
Hilsen til Halfdan (1965)
Julekalender for voksne (1965)
Gi’ den en tand til! (short story in Buket for bilister: bundet af Erik Seidenfaden, 1965)
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