"When words fail, Music speaks." - Hans Christian Anderson

 

 

 

Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales, a literary genre he mastered so well.

 

 

Born: April 2, 1805, Odense

Died: August 4, 1875, Copenhagen

Books: The Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor's New Clothes, Thumbelina, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Red Shoes, The Tinder Box, The Wild Swans, The Nightingale, The Swineherd, The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, The Flying Trunk, The Shadow, The Elf Mound, Fairy tales, Pictures of Sweden, The Story of the Ugly Duckling, New Fairy Tales, Nuevo Traje Del Emperador/the Emperor's New Suit, The Improvisatore, The Angel, Fairy Tales Told for Children, The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, The Wicked Prince, H Andersens Fairy Tls, Princess and the Pea, Best Loved Fairy Tales, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, Clod Hans, Good Stories for Great Holidays

Awards: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award

Parents: Hans Andersen, Anne Marie Andersdatter