COPENHAGEN, Denmark — For years, the somber fairy tale about a lonely candle who wanted to be lit dwelt in oblivion at the bottom of a box in Denmark's National Archives. Its recent discovery has sent ...

Hans Christian Andersen is one of Denmark’s most cherished writers – a master of the literary fairy tale whose influence stretches far beyond The Little Mermaid, The Emperor’s New Clothes and the ...

Although adults may misremember them as light children's stories, the 19th-century fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen commonly deal with themes of loneliness, forced journeys far from home, and ...

“It’s not a historical museum,” Henrik Lübker says. “It’s more an existential museum.” Kengo Kuma and Associates, Cornelius Vöge, MASU planning Most museums dedicated to a specific historical figure ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — For years, the somber fairy tale about a lonely candle that wanted to be lit dwelt in oblivion at the bottom of a box in Denmark’s National Archives. Its recent discovery ...

The H.C. Andersen House is open to the public on a limited basis in the writer’s hometown of Odense, Denmark. The H.C. Andersen House in Odense, Denmark. Photo: Laerke Beck Johansen. Artnet News ...

A historian in Denmark may have discovered Hans Christian Andersen’s first fairy tale ever. The story, called “The Tallow Candle,” was discovered at the bottom of an old box in Denmark’s national ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Remember the times when you would lay in bed and your mother would tell you the stories of a ...

Whether it’s rolling dice to cast a Shakespeare play on the day of the performance or presenting a new work riffing on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, messing with the classics is an important ...

H.C. Andersen’s House, a $61 million museum celebrating the outsized imagination of author Hans Christian Andersen, soft-opened earlier this summer in Odense, Denmark, on an urban campus spanning ...

Varmer, an award-winning Danish children's book writer, collaborates with Brøgger on this account of Andersen's anything-but-fairy-tale life. Exquisitely sensitive, by turns terrified and arrogant, ...