Naja Marie Aidt is a Danish language

Danish language

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 poet

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 and writer

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She was born in Egedesminde, Greenland, and was brought up partly in Greenland

Greenland

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 and partly in the Vesterbro area of Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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. In 1991, she published her first book of poetry

Poetry

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, Så længe jeg er ung (While I'm Still Young). Since 1993, she has been a full-time writer. In 1994, Naja Marie Aidt was awarded the Danish Fund for the Endowment of the Arts 3-year bursary.

Aidt won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 2008, for her short stories collection Bavian (Baboon, 2006). Bavian also earned her the Danish Kritikerprisen for 2006.