Mathilde Walter Clark
Mathilde Walter Clark is an author and essayist who was born and raised in Denmark with her Danish mother, but spent summers in St. Louis with her American father. She has a Master’s in Danish and Philosophy from Roskilde University and New York University. Her debut novel Thorsten Madsen’s Ego was published in 2004, and she has since published the novels Priapus, Cast, and the short story collections Disorder of Things and Grim Stories. Her latest novel, Lone Star, is about a father and a daughter and everything that separates them. It is about family, belonging and about overcoming enormous distances. A number of her stories have been translated into English and appeared in Iowa Review, Absinthe, Chattanooga Review, The Literary Review, Asymptote and other publications. In 2006, she was awarded the Carlsberg Foundation prize as “Discovery of the Year”. The same year she was awarded the Danish Art Foundation’s prestigious Three-Year Scholarship.