![]() ![]() The Eventyr, fortalte for Børn (Fairy Tales told for Children) was not immediately successful, but it slowly gained recognition and by 1845 the tales began to be translated into other languages, including English, which began Western Europe’s enduring love affair with his fairy stories. ![]() In 1935, however, he published a small pamphlet of original fairy stories, swiftly followed by two further pamphlets, all three of which were then produced bound together in 1837. During the early 1930s he wrote poetry, short stories and a novel, all which were published with moderate success. When only 14 he left home for Copenhagen hoping to become an actor but instead his social awkwardness led to misery and humiliation until he found a patron to sponsor his education. When a young child his father read The Arabian Nights to him, and later he listened to the folk legends recounted by his mother, both of which fired his imagination. “Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.”īorn into an impoverished family in Odense, Denmark, at the turn of the nineteenth century, Hans Christian Andersen wanted, above all other things, to be famous. ![]()
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