Leif Panduro

Leif Thormod Panduro (18 April 1923 – 16 January 1977) was a Danish writer, novelist, short story writer, and dramatist.

A dentist by profession, he began in his thirties to write stories about people who can't conform to society's rules for one reason or another.

Rend mig i traditionerne, (Kick me in the traditions, meaning: screw the traditions) from 1959 is about an adolescent who finally ends up in an asylum because he thinks society is mad.

Panduro's books and plays grew increasingly pessimistic about the orderly middle-class society and its senseless norms.

In 1970 he won the Danish booksellers prize De Gyldne Laurbær.

The grave of Panduro and his wife Esther, née Larsen (1921-2011), at the cemetery of Melby .