Bodil Steensen-Leth

Bodil Steensen-Leth, née Heide-Jørgensen is a Danish writer.
She is the daughter of Henning Heide-Jørgensen and graduated from the Svendborg Gymnasium in 1963. After studying at the University of Oregon and the University of Copenhagen, she married the landowner Christian Vincens Steensen-Leth in 1967 and moved to his Steensgård manorhouse in northern Langeland. At the same time she began a distance-learning course from Odense University, graduating MA in English in 1972.
Only when her children had started to grow up did she find enough time for writing, producing her debut Pandæmonien og andre fortællinger in 1984. She was also a literary critic for the Jyllands-Posten from 1978 to 1998 and a member of the Modersmålsselskabet's board of directors from 1982 to 1988. She received a one-off payment from the Danish Arts Foundation in 1988 and a grant from them in 1999.

Works

Pandæmonion, novella, 1984Dødens labyrint, novella, 1986Alle stirrer på mig, novel, 1987Jomfru Fanny, novel, 1989Møller, novel, 1991Stenen og lyset, novel, 1994Den sidste koncert, novella, 1996Ikke som en spottefugl, novel, 1998Prinsesse af blodet, novel, 2000Guds øje, novella, 2002Lili, novel, 2004Fem år i Berlin, novel, 2008Tradition og fornyelse, 2009 – part of the Slægten series of novels