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[email protected] | INTERNET www.salomonssonagency.com LITERARY FICTION Kaspar Colling Nielsen KASPAR COLLING NIELSEN (b. 1974) is celebrated as one of the most original voices of contemporary Danish fiction. With a style characterized by imaginative and tragicomic tales about life’s existential conditions and dilemmas he has made a permanent mark on the Danish literary scene. Born and raised in Copenhagen, he made his literary debut with the critically acclaimed Mount Copenhagen , for which he was awarded the Danske Bank First Book Award . Mount København (Mount Copenhagen) Striking, far out, and balancing on the edge just between the absurd and the RIghts solD believable, Mount Copenhagen is Kaspar Colling Nielsen’s unforgettable literary Czech Republic, Zlin debut. Denmark, gyldendal A 3 500 meter high mountain is being built in Copenhagen. 200 years in the Estonia, Varrak Germany, heyne making, Mount Copenhagen has a circumference of 55 kilometres and covers an Iceland, salka area greater than the size of a small island. Though the motive behind its Norway, tigerforlaget establishment is known only to the state and the private investors who funded it, the consequences of the mountain’s appearance are obvious for all to see. Where once there was nothing but flatland, the man-made structure has now introduced several new climate zones into the Danish landscape. From tropical to polar, these new environments become a breeding ground for exotic animal and plant species.