Peter Laugesen (born 5 March 1942 in Copenhagen) is a Danish poet and playwright and was member of the Situationist International.

[1] He was attracted by the writing of Ivan Chtcheglov and contacted Jeppesen Victor Martin and participated in a Situationist exhibition in Denmark.

He was then invited to France where he met Guy Debord and Michèle Bernstein and was attracted to the dérive as a poetic practice.

Peter Laugesen has a humble, anarchistic approach to writing practice, with deep roots in Beat poetry, inspired by writers like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs: the beautiful and the ugly cannot be separated but are interdependent.

Peter Laugesen has been a member of the committee which nominates Danish writers for the annual Nordic Council Literature Prize for several years.