about Anne-Cathrine
Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky was born in 1974 and graduated from Copenhagen’s Writer’s School in 1998. Having completed her Foreign Language Officer training on Moscow in 2003, she worked at the Danish Embassy in Russia before being sent to Afghanistan in 2007 to work as a soldier at first and then as advisor for the Foreign Ministry.
Her first book was Kvindernes krig (The Women’s War) in 2010, which was a documentary about her work with the Afghan women, their challenges and successes in the Afghan society. (Available in English via iBooks)
In 2012 she published her first novel, Den stjålne vej (The Stolen Road), for which she was awarded the Debutant Award, and which is about a young boy living on the streets who becomes involved with the Taliban; two women and their challenges for self-determination in a male dominated society and finally an old Engineer, captured by the Taliban who want to kill him. Forbandede yngel (Cursed Spawn) was
published in 2013, a novel based upon the author’s own childhood with a violent father and an unstable but imaginative mother. In 2016 she published the novel Orkansæson og stilheden (Hurricane Season and the Silence) a novel portraying various characters as we follow an unusual priest and her long-time friend, an attorney, who lost her husband in a car accident. It’s a novel about women and men overcoming sorrow and dealing with injustice. Then, in 2018, came her latest novel, Smaragdsliberen (The Emerald Heart), about an old Jewish emerald cutter, who suffers a heart attack but survives. His near-death experience influences his approach to life. His close friend, a Muslim goldsmith, struggles with a youngster in the family
falling prey to radicals. At the same time the emerald cutters daughter is kidnapped by radicals.
Med bue og pil (With Bow and Arrow), was published in September of 2019, and is a work of non-fiction with the author’s personal account of hunting with bow and arrow.
Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky has been shortlisted for almost every important Danish Literary Prize, many of them on several occasions. The short listings include Berlingske Literary Prize, Weekendavisen’s Literary Prize, Danish Radio’s Novel of the Year. Her first novel won the Book Forum Debutant Prize in 2012 and with her second novel she won the prestigious once in a lifetime award “The Golden Laurels” in 2013.
Despite her background from poor farming country, today she is a chamberlaine, married to Colonel Mads Rahbek of The Royal Lifeguards, and a regular guest at state dinners. Her readers hold her in high esteem, and she is a popular public speaker.
Rights are handled by Sophia Hersi Smith at Copenhagen Literary Agency: sophia@cphla.dk , Phone: +45 71 31 54 13
Forfatteren
Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky er født 1974 i Svendborg og vokset op på Sydfyn. Hun har ind til videre skrevet fire romaner, men begyndte med en biografi, Kvindernes krig, om sit arbejde med undertrykte kvinder i Afghanistan. Bogen udkom i 2010 og var nomineret til en række priser.
I 2012 kom hendes debutroman Den stjålne vej, der modtog Bog Forums Debutantpris af en enig jury. Romanen blev desuden nr. 2 i DR Romanpriskonkurrence, der det år blev vundet af Kim Leine med Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden. Den stjålne vej foregår i Afghanistan og er en roman, som mange læsere stadig har som deres absolutte yndlingsroman.
Det store gennembrud kom med romanen Forbandede Yngel, der udkom i 2013 og vandt først Politikens romankonkurrence og siden modtog De Gyldne Laurbær af boghandlerne. Forbandede Yngel er en selvbiografisk roman om en opvækst i skyggen af psykisk og fysisk vold. Den ramte et enormt publikum i Danmark og blev oversat til blandt andet norsk, svensk, islandsk, fransk og en række andre sprog. Det er en af de romaner, hvor der efter hvert foredrag sidder en eller flere tilbage i salen og græder ned i gulvtæppet fordi deres egen livshistorie netop er blevet fortalt.
Efter en heftig foredragsturne og en del hårdt arbejde udkom Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzskys tredje roman, Orkansæsonen og stilheden i begyndelsen af 2016. Det blev hende hidtil bedst anmeldte roman og vandt især mange yngre læsere samt et nyt større mandligt publikum.
I 2018 udkom romanen Smaragdsliberen. En fortælling om ubrydelige venskaber på tværs af religiøse overbevisninger, om kærlighed og bratte fald: En roman om at vælge livet til.
Jagt har været en stor del af Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzskys liv siden 2013, og i efteråret 2019 udkom bogen Med bue og pil - Jagthistorier, en samling af historier om denne form for jagt, som kræver nærhed, stilhed og tålmodighed.
Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky har udover at modtage Debutantprisen og De Gyldne Laurbær været nomineret til Weekend Avisens Litteraturpris tre gange. Forfatteren er en populær foredragsholder og desuden en populær gæst på udenlandske litteraturfestivaller.
Privat er hun gift med Chefen for Den Kongelige Livgarde, oberst, kammerherre Mads Rahbek. Kammerherreinden deltager med stor glæde i statsmiddage og andre repræsentative glæder og pligter i den grad, det kan passes ind i kalenderen.
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