Ingeborg Johansen

Ingeborg Johansen (September 26, 1896 – January 23, 1986) was a Danish writer. She also used the pseudonyms Harriet Holm and Helene Paider.

Early life and education Ingeborg Johansen was born in Riga, the second child of Jens Christian Johansen, a Danish engineer and consul general in the Baltics. She was the sister of the historian Paul Johansen. She attended primary school in Tallinn and completed secondary school in Denmark, and then she began university studies in literature and classical languages.

Career Under the name Harriet Holm, Johansen first published some short stories in the newspaper in 1916. The following year, her debut novel, Den røde Villa (The Red Villa), was published.

Johansen translated Russian literature into Danish, especially the works of Ivan Turgenev.

Works Den røde Villa (The Red Villa), novel, 1917 Satan, novel, 1919 Det forheksede Land (The Haunted Land), novel trilogy, 1944–1946: Familien paa Lipfer (The Lipfer Family) Dimitri Falen Edith De lyksalige øer. Digte og prosa (The Blissful Islands. Poems and Prose), 1952 Uvirkelighedens faser (Phases of Unreality), novel, 1967 Fra arken til det nye land (From the Ark to the New Land), novel, 1969 Manden med noderullen (The Man with the Music Roll), novel, 1971 Joaweski (Joaveski), novel, 1972 Fru Teil i Tallinn (Mrs. Teil in Tallinn), novel, 1974 En periode med Paulette (A Period with Paulette), novel, 1976 "Unge piger" (Young Girls), a story in the collection Når mænd elsker mænd og kvinder elsker kvinder. 160 års danske fortællinger om bøsser og lesbiske (When Men Love Men and Women Love Women. 160 Years of Danish Stories about Gays and Lesbians), 2003

Awards 1949: 1967: Danish Arts Foundation Award 1970: Danish Arts Foundation Award for the novel Fra arken til det nye land (From the Ark to the New Land)