Helle Merete Brix (born 30 December 1959)[1] is a Danish author, journalist and literary critic.
[2] She has been noted as a critic of Islam since the late 1990s, and was formerly associated with the Danish Free Press Society as editor of its online magazine Sappho until 2010, and was later a part of the Lars Vilks Committee.
[2] Brix has been noted as a writer critical of Islam since at least 1999,[3][4] although she was a member of the Danish Social Liberal Party until 2002.
[13][14][15] She had left the Danish Free Press Society by the early 2010s, after considering it too irreconcilable to differing viewpoints,[16] and became a literary critic for Weekendavisen.
[22] Brix is a Buddhist, who converted to the religion after an interview with Lama Ole Nydahl in 1994, who she also says inspired her criticism of Islam.