Inge Eriksen

Inge Marie Eriksen (22 October 1935 – 13 March 2015) was a Danish writer and political activist. She became involved in Danish public debate in the 1960s and helped to the left-wing Left Socialists political party establish that she left in 1969. Eriksen began her writing career in 1975 and won various awards for her work from her first book that was published in 1975 and her final one in 2009. Her works include novels such as the science fiction series Rummet uden tid, 1–4 and Sommerfugelens vinge.

Early life and education Eriksen was born in Skørping, Denmark on 22 October 1935. She was the daughter of the Norwegian railway official Erik Eriksen and the nurse Nanna Henriette Jungersen. Eriksen spent her early childhood in Southern Jutland, before she, her brother and mother relocated to Ålborg upon the death of her father in a German concentration camp in 1945. Eriksen helped to establish the left-wing Left Socialists political party in 1967 and became a member of its primary board in mid-1968 before being employed in its office that same year. Eriksen's first book, the gender-political work Kællinger i Danmark, co-written with the film director and painter Jytte Rex was published in 1975 after the two held the Drømmen og den rasende latte exhibition the previous year. The following year, she authored the two-volume novel Victoria og verdensrevolutionen. This was followed by Eriksen's next novel Fugletræet about the contemporary division of love and work in 1979, the in 1987, the in 1994, HK's Kunstnerpris in 1996, the Martin Andersen Nexø Prize in 1999 and the Otto Gelsted Prize in 2001.