Aase Hansen

Aase Hansen (March 11, 1893 – February 9, 1981) was a Danish educator, translator, and writer.

Her main characters are intelligent women who are conflicted between realizing their full potential and finding meaningful relationships. They are both liberated and imprisoned.

She was awarded the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat (Travel Scholarship) in 1948. In 1957, she received the Drachmannlegatet.

Hansen died in Copenhagen at the age of 87.

Selected works Vraggods ("Wreckage") (1933) Stine (1933) En Kvinde kommer hjem ("A Woman returns home"), novel (1937) Drømmen om i Gaar ("The Dream of Yesterday"), novel (1939) Den lyse Maj ("Light May"), novel (1948) Skygger i et Spejl ("Shadows in a Mirror"), novel (1951) Klip af et Billedark ("Clippings from a Picture Sheet"), memoir (1973) Forvitringens Aar ("In years of decline") (1977)