|  DECORAH, Iowa, Jan. 10, 2008 - Lise Kildegaard, associate professor of English at Luther College, has been awarded a grant from the American Scandinavian Foundation to work on translating Louis Jensen’s "Square Stories" at the Center for Children’s Literature at the Danish University of Education, Copenhagen.
Kildegaard was awarded the $6,100 grant from the Helen Lee and Emil Lassen Fund of the ASF. She is one of eight Americans awarded grants to travel to and work in Denmark.
Kildegaard holds the doctoral and master’s degree in English from the University of Chicago and the bachelor’s degree from Carleton College. A teacher, researcher and writer who focuses on the moral and ethical messages of narrative literature, fables and metaphors, Kildegaard is the author and editor of numerous articles published in professional and academic journals.
Author Louis Jensen is best known for his children’s literature, having published more than 60 books for a wide range of young ages. For adults, he has published a memoir, two novels and several books of poems.
He has won the 1996 Nordic Children’s Prize, the 1998 Hans Christian Andersen Stipend, and has been nominated for both the most prestigious awards in children’s literature, the Hans Christian Andersen Award and the Astrid Lindgren memorial Prize.
Jensen is currently working on 1,001 "firkantede historier," or "square stories." Each of the stories is a few sentences long. In publication, the stories are arranged, one per page, in the shape of a square.
The ASF promotes international understanding through educational and cultural exchange between the United States and Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
ASF, founded in 1910 by Danish-American industrialist Niels Poulsen, is a publicly supported, nonprofit organization that carries on an extensive program of fellowships, grants, trainee placement, publishing, membership offerings, and cultural activities.* *More than 27,000 Americans and Scandinavians have participated in ASF exchange programs of study, research or practical training.
For further information about the American-Scandinavian Foundation, visit their website at http://www.amscan.org.
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