![]() ![]() ![]() In his youth, he attended school sporadically, and spent far more time memorizing and reciting stories than studying in any traditional fashion. His family were virtually penniless, and Andersen grew up in a one-bedroom house in Odense’s poorest quarter. ![]() Had it not been for his unwavering determination to become a professional writer, the literary realm may never have been gifted tales such now-timeless as ‘ The Little Mermaid‘, ‘ The Emperor’s New Clothes‘ and ‘ The Ugly Duckling‘.īorn in Odense, the third largest city in Denmark, on Tuesday 2nd April 1805, Hans Christian Andersen was the only son of a sickly, 22-year old shoemaker and his older wife. Before he achieved global fame as an author of children’s literature on a par with Aesop and the Brothers Grimm, Andersen suffered three decades of toil, isolation and strife. This quote, taken from Hans Christian Andersen’s autobiography The Fairy Tale of My Life (1855), could serve as a one-sentence biography of the great writer. Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the Worldįirst, you undergo such a terrible amount of suffering, and then you become famous. ![]()
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