Villy Sørensen (13 January 1929 – 11 September 2001) was a Danish short story writer, philosopher and literary critic of the Modernist tradition.
His fiction was heavily influenced by his philosophical ideas, and he has been compared to Franz Kafka in this regard.
He published additional collections of short stories in 1955 and 1964, all winning various awards in Denmark.
Afterward, he became a member of the Danish Academy in 1965, subsequently editing several other Modernist journals and periodicals.
Sørensen, though he continued to produce short fiction throughout his life, was also deeply engaged in philosophy, about which he wrote many essays and several books including Seneca: The Humanist at the Court of Nero and his response to Søren Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Hverken-eller (i.e. "Neither/Nor").