Niels Hav is a full time poet and short story writer living in Copenhagen. A contemporary Nordic voice with poetry and fiction published in numerous journals and anthologies in e.g. English, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Dutch, Chinese.
A new English collection of his poetry, We Are Here is published by Book Thug of Toronto - translated con amore by Patrick Friesen and Per Brask.
Most recently a selection of Niels Hav’s poetry, U Odbranu Pesnika, has appeared in Serbian translation, published by RAD, Belgrade 2008.
Raised on a farm in western Denmark Niels Hav today resides in the most colourful and multiethnic part of the Danish capital. He has travelled widely in Europe, Asia, North and South America. In his native Danish he is the author of three books of short fiction and five collections of poetry, most recently Grundstof, Gyldendal 2004.
Niels Hav has received a number of prestigious awards from The Danish Arts Council.
“…Niels Hav's We Are Here, aptly translated into English by Patrick Friesen and P.K. Brask, brings to us a selection from the works of one of Denmark's most talented living poets and is all the more welcome for that reason….
As exemplified in We Are Here, Hav's poetry is characterized by an economy of expression, disarmingly straightforward language, gentle humor, irony - which is often self-directed - arresting imagery, and a subdued but persistent undertone of existential angst…
