Vibeke Vasbo

Vibeke Vasbo (born 9 July 1944) is a Danish writer and women's rights and LGBT rights activist. In the early 1970s, she participated in the Redstocking movement and in the Danish Lesbian Movement. She embarked on a literary career in 1976 with Al den løgn om kvinders svaghed (All those Lies about Women's Weakness) expanding on the work of a woman crane driver, based on her experiences in Oslo in 1974-75.

Biography Born on 9 July 1944 on the Danish island of Als, she was the daughter of medical doctors Harald Eyvind Roesdahl (1912–94) and Anna Helene Refslund Thomsen (born 1912). The second youngest of four children (three girls and one boy), she grew up in an old farmhouse in Tandslet where her parents had their practices. As a child, she was strongly influenced by her maternal grandmother, the author and politician Ingeborg Refslund Thomsen (1891–1972), spending much of her time at Brundlund Manor, her grandparents' home in Åbenrå. She dreamt of becoming a journalist, writing short stories and poems. After matriculating from highschool in Sønderborg, she spent half a year as an au pair in Cambridge, England, improving her command of English.

Selected works 1976: Al den løgn om kvinders svaghed 1980: Efterårsferie ved fjorden, short stories 1980: Måske har jeg haft en anelse, poetry 1981: Sygehjælper i æbletræernes blomstringstid, short stories 1982: Den enøjede killing, short stories 1984: Miraklet i Amalfi, novel 1985: Anna-Amanda, short stories 1990: Det er det, jeg siger: Man vil begå mord!, short stories 1991: Hildas sang, historisk roman fra 600´årenes England, novel 1993: Glæden ved at kigge ud ad vinduet, essay 2004: Artemis, beretningen om en kat 2008: Der mangler en sang om solsorten, novel 2018: The Song of Hild, English translation of Hildas sang (translated by Gaye Kynoch)