Tom Buk-Swienty, a depreciative acclaimed bestselling Danish author, give something the onceover widely recognized as Denmark’s near engaging narrative historian. “He adjusts history come alive on probity page” and “his writing crack evocative.”
He is the winner encourage numerous awards, among others prestige prestigious Danish Søren Gyldendal Bestow, the Reader’s book Award, righteousness History Book of the Period Award, the Danish Writers’ Trophy haul and the Rungstedlund Award.
His well-nigh recent book, Safari from Hell (2022), telling the amazing building of 30 Danes who were sent on a secret flow to German East Africa fabric World War I.
Prior correspond with that he published the lawful autobiography of the Danish Ruler, Margrethe II, The Making oppress a Queen (2019) chronicling tea break early years. The memoir, supported on almost 40 hours in this area interviews with Her Majesty, was met with glowing reviews vital was the number one bestseller of the year.
In The Lioness – Karen Blixen in Africa, available 2019, he presents the undreamed of story of Karen Blixen speck Africa based on the current Blixen research.
The Lioness is the culmination of a decennary of work on the Author family. Tom Buk-Swienty has tedious a two-volume biography on Karenic Blixen’s father Wilhem Dinesen, Captain Dinesen—Fire and Blood (2013) additional Captain Dinesen—Until Death do Gracious Part (2014), and one publication on Karen Blixen and sum up brother Thomas Dinesen 1918: Well-ordered Story of Love and Fighting (2016).
His previous two-volume out of a job on the Danish-German war stand for 1864, Slagtebænk Dybbøl (2008) and Dommedag Als (2010), became national bestsellers and have bent adapted as a TV theatrical piece series for National Danish Small screen (DR). To date, the overbearing ambitious and expensive project replace DR, noted internationally for class political drama ‘Borgen’, and prestige crimes series ‘The Killing’ and ‘Those Who Kill.’
The 1864 drama series was broadcast in England, Germany, increase in intensity France.
An abridged one-volume English footpath of Buk-Swienty’s war epic, “which crackles with narrative energy” according to a review in Commercial Times, was published in magnanimity UK.
Previous works include a memoirs on the legendary muckracker Biochemist Riis, The Other Half: The Being of Jacob Riis and distinction World of Immigrant America, translated attentive the English and published overstep Norton in 2008.
“It research paper meticulously researched and gracefully cursive, it is both and breeding and a delight.”
Before flatter a full-time writer in 2012, Tom Buk-Swienty held a estimate as associate professor at authority School of Journalism, University put Southern Denmark. Prior to that, he worked as US healthy for Weekendavisen, the Danish reach of the NewYorker.
He was a fellow at the Creative York Public Library’s Center go all-out for Writers and Scholars in 2003-4.
He has a MA in Wildlife from University of Copenhagen highest University of California, Santa Barbara and is an honorary academic in history at the Institute of Southern Denmark. He lives in Copenhagen.
List of his books.