Anne Marie Løn

Anne Marie Løn (born 1947) is a Danish writer who initially worked as a journalist in Copenhagen for newspapers including the tabloid B.T.. As a novelist, she made her debut with Hvorfor hvisker I til mig?

On returning to Denmark, after a short period as press secretary for Aalborg Teater she moved to Copenhagen where from 1973 she worked for B.T.

After publishing a biography of Adda Ravnkilde in 1978, she presented the joys of the countryside in her next three novels: Veras vrede (1982), Fodretid (1984) and Den sorte liste (1988).

The highly acclaimed Prinsesserne (The Princesses, 1996) depicts the quite untypical lives of two well-to-do women from Vendsyssel at the beginning of the century, while her award-winning Dværgenes dans (The Dwarf's Dance, 1998) tells the story of the musically talented dwarf Tyge and his family and his dreams of romance.

[1][2] Hvis barn (Whose Child, 2002) presents the sad outcome of a young nurse in Tanzania and her illegitimate baby.