Her works have been published in other languages such as Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Norwegian and Swedish and she was voted the winner of literary prizes such as the De Gyldne Laurbær.
[3][7] Stangerup went on to author the novels Spejldans in 1969, Diamanter er dydens laun in 1970, Solsikkerne in 1972, the psychological thriller Ulvetid in 1980 following a lengthy break from writing and Den tibetanske maske in 1981.
[6][7] Stangerup's objective of the novel was to convey "the power and influence that women had before they fell victim to the moral view of Victorianism and changed social conditions, which caused the better off to fall into vacancy, wigs and powder".
[9] In 1989, Stangerup published the novel Spardame [da] about Leonora Christina Ulfeldt,[7] after working as the author of screenplays of dramas which were broadcast on Danish television two years earlier.
[1][2] This was followed by her receiving the Thit Jensens Forfatter Legat in 1990 and her releasing the novel Sankt Markus nat based in the period of the Reformation two years later.
[2] Stangerup was married to the landowner County Count Adam Vilhelm Josef Knuth af Knuthenborg from 25 July 1969 until their divorce in 1979.