Seducer, The: It is Hard to Die in Dieppe (HB)

Receiver of The Grand Prize of the Danish Academy, 1986. While a novel and not a biography, The Seducer follows Danish writer Peder Ludvig Møller, a controversial critic, journalist, poet and novelist who was a contemporary of Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen, but also a man who led a life of wild debauchery during his self-imposed exile in Paris and his travels through Europe during the 1850s until his much too early death from syphilis in a French mental asylum in 1865.