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An exhibit entitled "Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875): A Bicentennial Selection," will be on display at Thomas Cooper Library from April 4 to May 31.
Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark’s best-known author, had a long and diverse career in the world of letters. Most widely recognized for his collections of fairy tales, Andersen was also a novelist, a poet and travel writer, the author of musical works, and a creator of original, whimsical papercuts. His retellings of traditional Danish fairy tales and the many fairy tales he created have been read and reread by generations of young people around the world.
This exhibit has been created for the bicentennial anniversary of Andersen’s birth and displays a representative collection of his writings held by the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. The bulk of the books on display have been taken from the Historical Children’s Literature Collection and the Augusta Baker Collection of African-American Children’s Literature and Folklore. In addition to highlighting some of the first English translations of Andersen’s writings, the exhibit also looks at several of his classic fairy tales and explores how nineteenth- and twentieth-century children’s book illustrators have reacted to and interpreted the text, often in widely different ways.
For more information about the exhibit, call Jeffrey Makala at 7-0296 or e-mail him at makalaj@gwm.sc.edu.
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