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He wrote a fairy-tale called the tinder box

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He wrote a fairy-tale called the tinder box

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he wrote the princess and the pea and the sweethearts

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he wrote the emperors new clothes and thumbelina

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Hans Christian Andersen wrote fairy tales until 1872, publishing them in installments as he did with the first series Fairy Tales.

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Hans Christian Andersen wrote fairy tales until 1872, publishing them in installments as he did with the first series Fairy Tales.

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he wrote the sheperdess and the chimeny sweep

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he died at 70

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In 1872 Hans Christian Andersen fell ill with liver cancer. He passed away on August 4th, 1875 near Copenhagen.
Hans Christian Andersen's gravestone is located at Assistens Cemetery in Copenhagen.
At the time of his death Hans Christian Andersen had already earned international acclaim.
International Children's Book Day is held on April 2nd each year in honor of Hans Christian Andersen's birth date.

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In 1872 Hans Christian Andersen fell ill with liver cancer. He passed away on August 4th, 1875 near Copenhagen.

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In 1872 Hans Christian Andersen fell ill with liver cancer. He passed away on August 4th, 1875 near Copenhagen.

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his tales have being translated into more than 125  languages
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At the time of his death Hans Christian Andersen had already earned international acclaim.

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Several movies have been made about Hans Christian Anderson including The Swedish Nightingale (1941), Hans Christian Andersen (1952), The Daydreamer (1966) and Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale (2003).

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Several movies have been made about Hans Christian Anderson including The Swedish Nightingale (1941), Hans Christian Andersen (1952), The Daydreamer (1966) and Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale (2003).

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he is known for using idiom humor and irony in his books

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New York's Central Park is home to a statue of Hans Christian Andersen and The Ugly Duckling.
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he said life itself is a wonderful fairy tale

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In Japan there was a theme park named after him. He wrote a number of books such as The Little Mermaid The Nightingale The Emperors New Clothes.

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Today the most important international children's book price is named after him. It is the Hans Christan Andersen Prize , which is awarded every 2 years . It is also referred to as the "Small Nobel Prize". The award ceremony will take place on April 2nd - the birthday of Andersen.

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Today the most important international children's book price is named after him. It is the Hans Christan Andersen Prize , which is awarded every 2 years . It is also referred to as the "Small Nobel Prize". The award ceremony will take place on April 2nd - the birthday of Andersen.

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his first text to be published was not published in Denmark in fact it was published in New York
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In 1819, Andersen traveled to Copenhagen to work as an actor. He returned to school after a short time, supported by a patron named Jonas Collin. He began writing during this period, at Collin's urging, but was discouraged from continuing by his teachers.

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There is an airport named after him In Ondense

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There is an airport named after him In Ondense

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Hans Christian Andersen lived at 67 Nyhavn, Copenhagen from 1845 to 1864. There is a memorial plaque in his honor there today.

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Hans Christian Andersen lived at 67 Nyhavn, Copenhagen from 1845 to 1864. There is a memorial plaque in his honor there today.

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Hans Christian Andersen liked to travel, and to write about his adventures in travelogues. In Sweden was published in 1851. He published several more travelogues including Shadow Pictures of a Journey to the Harz, Swiss Saxony, A Poet's Bazaar, In Spain, and A Visit to Portugal in 1866.

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Andersen's work first gained recognition in 1829, with the publication of a short story entitled "A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager." He followed this with the publication of a play, a book of poetry and a travelogue. The promising young author won a grant from the king, allowing him to travel across Europe and further develop his body of work. A novel based on his time in Italy, The Improvisatore, was published in 1835. The same year, Andersen began producing fairy tales.

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Fairy Tales included the stories The Tinderbox, Little Claus and Big Claus, The Princess and the Pea, Little Ida's Flowers, Thumbelina, The Naughty Boy, The Traveling Companion, The Little Mermaid, and The Emperor's New Clothes.

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Andersen wrote a total of 168 fairy tales , autobiographical texts, novellas, dramas, poems and travel reports. But they were never really known. 

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New York's Central Park is home to a statue of Hans Christian Andersen and The Ugly Duckling.

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Hans Christian Andersen wrote fairy tales until 1872, publishing them in installments as he did with the first series Fairy Tales.

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Hans was sent to a school for poor children and became a weaver's apprentice and then a tailor to support himself. At 14 he move away to become an actor in Copenhagen, but when his voice changed he took the advice of a friend at the theatre and focused on writing. Andersen's first published story was The Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave in 1822.

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Hans Christian Andersen ( AN-dər-sən, Danish: [ˈhænˀsˈkʰʁestjænˈɑnɐsn̩] ; 2 April 1805 - 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.

Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes, have been translated into more than 125 languages. They have become embedded in Western collective consciousness, accessible to children as well as presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers. His most famous fairy tales include " The Emperor's New Clothes", " The Little Mermaid", " The Nightingale", " The Steadfast Tin Soldier", " The Red Shoes", " The Princess and the Pea", " The Snow Queen", " The Ugly Duckling", " The Little Match Girl", and " Thumbelina". His stories have inspired ballets, plays, and animated and live-action films.

Andersen's childhood home in Odense

Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, on 2 April 1805. He had a stepsister named Karen. His father, also named Hans, considered himself related to nobility (his paternal grandmother had told his father that their family had belonged to a higher social class, but investigations have disproved these stories). Although it has been challenged, speculation suggests that Andersen was an illegitimate son of King Christian VIII. Danish historian Jens Jørgensen supported this idea in his book H.C. Andersen, en sand myte [a true myth].

Andersen was baptised on 15 April 1805 in Saint Hans Church in Odense. According to his birth certificate, which was not drafted until November 1823, six godparents were present at the baptism ceremony: Madam Sille Marie Breineberg, Maiden Friederiche Pommer, shoemaker Peder Waltersdorff, journeyman carpenter Anders Jørgensen, hospital porter Nicolas Gomard, and royal hatter Jens Henrichsen Dorch.[citation needed ]

Andersen's father, who had received an elementary school education, introduced his son to literature, reading him Arabian Nights. Andersen's mother, Anne Marie Andersdatter, was an illiterate washerwoman. Following her husband's death in 1816, she remarried in 1818. Andersen was sent to a local school for poor children where he received a basic education and had to support himself, working as an apprentice to a weaver and, later, to a tailor. At fourteen, he moved to Copenhagen to seek employment as an actor. Having a good soprano voice, he was accepted into the Royal Danish Theatre, but his voice soon changed. A colleague at the theatre told him that he considered Andersen a poet, and taking the suggestion seriously, Andersen began to focus on writing.

Jonas Collin, director of the Royal Danish Theatre, held great affection for Andersen and sent him to a grammar school in Slagelse, persuading King Frederick VI to pay part of his education. Andersen had by then published his first story, "The Ghost at Palnatoke's Grave" (1822). Though not a stellar pupil, he also attended school at Elsinore until 1827.

He later said that his years at this school were the darkest and most bitter years of his life. At one school, he lived at his schoolmaster's home. There he was abused and was told that it was done in order "to improve his character." He later said that the faculty had discouraged him from writing, which resulted in a depression.

It doesn't matter about being born in a duckyard, as long as you are hatched from a swan's egg.

A very early fairy tale by Andersen, " The Tallow Candle" ( Danish: Tællelyset), was discovered in a Danish archive in October 2012. The story, written in the 1820s, is about a candle that does not feel appreciated. It was written while Andersen was still in school and dedicated to one of his benefactors. The story remained in that family's possession until it was found among other family papers in a local archive.

In 1829, Andersen enjoyed considerable success with the short story "A Journey on Foot from Holmen's Canal to the East Point of Amager". Its protagonist meets characters ranging from Saint Peter to a talking cat. Andersen followed this success with a theatrical piece, Love on St. Nicholas Church Tower, and a short volume of poems. He made little progress in writing and publishing immediately following these poems, but did receive a small travel grant from the king in 1833. This enabled him to set out on the first of many journeys throughout Europe. At Jura, near Le Locle, Switzerland, Andersen wrote the story "Agnete and the Merman". The same year he spent an evening in the Italian seaside village of Sestri Levante, which inspired the title of "The Bay of Fables". He arrived in Rome in October 1834. Andersen's travels in Italy were reflected in his first novel, a fictionalized autobiography titled The Improvisatore ( Improvisatoren), published in 1835 to instant acclaim.

Literary fairy tales

A paper chimney sweep cut by Andersen

Fairy Tales Told for Children. First Collection ( Danish: Eventyr, fortalt for Børn. Første Samling.) is a collection of nine fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. The tales were published in a series of three installments by C. A. Reitzel in Copenhagen between May 1835 and April 1837. They were Andersen's first venture into the fairy tale genre.

The first installment was a volume of sixty-one unbound pages published 8 May 1835 containing " The Tinderbox", " Little Claus and Big Claus", " The Princess and the Pea" and "Little Ida's Flowers". The first three tales were based on folktales Andersen had heard in his childhood. The fourth was Andersen's creation for Ida Thiele, the daughter of folklorist Just Mathias Thiele, Andersen's early benefactor. Reitzel paid Andersen thirty rigsdalers for the manuscript, and the booklet was priced at twenty-four shillings.

The second booklet was published on 16 December 1835 and contained " Thumbelina", "The Naughty Boy", and "The Traveling Companion". "Thumbelina" was inspired by " Tom Thumb" and other stories of miniature people. "The Naughty Boy" was based on a poem about Eros from the Anacreontea, and "The Traveling Companion" was a ghost story Andersen had experimented with in the year 1830.

Andersen in 1836

The third booklet contained " The Little Mermaid" and " The Emperor's New Clothes", and it was published on 7 April 1837. "The Little Mermaid" was influenced by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's Undine (1811) and legends about mermaids. This tale established Andersen's international reputation. The only other tale in the third booklet was "The Emperor's New Clothes", which was based on a medieval Spanish story with Arab and Jewish origins. On the eve of the third installment's publication, Andersen revised the conclusion (in which the Emperor simply walks in procession) to its now-famous finale of a child calling out, "The Emperor is not wearing any clothes!"

Danish reviews of the first two booklets first appeared in 1836 and were not enthusiastic. The critics disliked the chatty, informal style and apparent immorality, since children's literature was meant to educate rather than to amuse. The critics discouraged Andersen from pursuing this type of style. Andersen believed that he was working against the critics' preconceived notions about fairy tales, and he temporarily returned to novel-writing, waiting a full year before publishing his third installment.

The nine tales from the three booklets were published in one volume and sold for seventy-two shillings. A title page, a table of contents, and a preface by Andersen were published in this volume.

In 1868 Horace Scudder, the editor of Riverside Magazine For Young People, offered Andersen $500 for twelve new stories. Sixteen of Andersen's stories were published in the magazine, and ten of them appeared there before they were printed in Denmark.

Travelogues

Portrait of Andersen by Franz Hanfstaengl, dated July 1860

In 1851, he published In Sweden, a volume of travel sketches. The publication received wide acclaim. A keen traveler, Andersen published several other long travelogues: Shadow Pictures of a Journey to the Harz, Swiss Saxony, etc. etc. in the Summer of 1831, A Poet's Bazaar, In Spain, and A Visit to Portugal in 1866. (The last one describes his visit with his Portuguese friends Jorge and José O'Neill, who he knew in the mid-1820s while he was living in Copenhagen.) In his travelogues, Andersen used contemporary conventions related to travel writing but developed the style to make it his own. Each of his travelogues combines documentary and descriptive accounts of his experiences, adding additional philosophical passages on topics such as authorship, immortality, and fiction in literary travel reports. Some of the travelogues, such as In Sweden, contain fairy tales.

In the 1840s, Andersen's attention returned to the theatre stage, but with little success. He had better luck with the publication of the Picture-Book without Pictures (1840). He started a second series of fairy tales in 1838 and a third series in 1845. At this point Andersen was celebrated throughout Europe, although his native Denmark still showed some resistance to his pretensions.

Between 1845 and 1864, Andersen lived at Nyhavn 67, Copenhagen, where a memorial plaque is now placed.

Patrons of Andersen's writings included the monarchy of Denmark, the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. An unexpected invitation from King Christian IX to the royal palace entrenched Andersen's folklore in Danish royalty as well as making its way to the Romanov dynasty when Christian IX's daughter Maria Feodorovna married Alexander III of Russia.

Personal life

Søren Kierkegaard

In "Andersen as a Novelist", Søren Kierkegaard remarks that Andersen is characterized as "a possibility of a personality, wrapped up in such a web of arbitrary moods and moving through an elegiac duo-decimal scaled of almost echoless, dying tones just as easily roused as subdued, who, in order to become a personality, needs a strong life-development."

Andersen statue at the Rosenborg Castle Gardens, Copenhagen

Meetings with Charles Dickens

In June 1847, Andersen visited England for the first time, enjoying triumphant social success. The Countess of Blessington invited him to her parties where many intellectuals would meet, and at one such party he met Charles Dickens for the first time. They shook hands and walked to the veranda, which Andersen noted in his diary: "We were on the veranda, and I was so happy to see and speak to England's now-living writer whom I do love the most."

The two authors respected each other's work and each other as writers, and had in common their depictions of the underclass, who often led difficult lives affected both by the Industrial Revolution and by abject poverty.

Ten years later, Andersen visited England again, primarily to meet Dickens. He extended the planned brief visit to Dickens' home at Gads Hill Place into a five-week stay, much to the distress of Dickens's family. After Andersen was told to leave, Dickens gradually stopped all correspondence between them, to Andersen's great disappointment and confusion; he had enjoyed the visit and never understood why his letters went unanswered.

It is suspected that Dickens modeled the physical appearance and mannerisms of Uriah Heep from David Copperfield after Andersen.

Romantic relationships

In Andersen's early life, his private journal records his refusal to have sexual relations.

Andersen experienced homosexual attraction; he wrote to Edvard Collin: "I languish for you as for a pretty Calabrian wench ... my sentiments for you are those of a woman. The femininity of my nature and our friendship must remain a mystery." Collin wrote in his own memoir, "I found myself unable to respond to this love, and this caused the author much suffering." Andersen's infatuation with Karl Alexander, the young hereditary duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, did result in a relationship:

The Hereditary Grand Duke walked arm in arm with me across the courtyard of the castle to my room, kissed me lovingly, asked me always to love him though he was just an ordinary person, asked me to stay with him this winter ... Fell asleep with the melancholy, happy feeling that I was the guest of this strange prince at his castle and loved by him ... It is like a fairy tale.

There is a sharp division in opinion over Andersen's physical fulfillment in the sexual sphere. Jackie Wullschlager's biography maintains he was possibly lovers with Danish dancer Harald Scharff and Andersen's " The Snowman" was inspired by their relationship. Scharff first met Andersen when the latter was in his fifties. Andersen was infatuated and Wullschlager sees his journals as implying that their relationship was sexual. Scharff had various dinners alone with Andersen and gifted a silver toothbrush to Andersen on his fifty-seventh birthday. Wullschlager asserts that in the winter of 1861-62, the two men entered an affair that brought Andersen "joy, some kind of sexual fulfillment, and a temporary end to loneliness." He was not discreet in his conduct with Scharff, and displayed his feelings openly. Onlookers regarded the relationship as improper and ridiculous. In his diary in March 1862, Andersen referred to this time in his life as his "erotic period". On 13 November 1863, Andersen wrote, "Scharff has not visited me in eight days; with him it is over." Andersen took this calmly and the two thereafter met in overlapping social circles without bitterness, though Andersen attempted to rekindle their relationship a number of times without success. According to Wullschlager, "Andersen's diaries leave no doubt that he was attracted to both sexes; that at times he longed for a physical relationship with a woman and that at other times he was involved in physical liaisons with men." For example, Wullschlager quotes from Andersen's diaries:

"Scharff bounded up to me; threw himself round my neck and kissed me! .... Nervous in the evening" Five days later he received "a visit from Scharff, who was very intimate and nice". In the following weeks, there was "dinner at Scharff's, who was ardent and loving"

The claim that Andersen entertained "physical liaisons" with men has been contested by Klara Bom and Anya Aarenstrup from the H. C. Andersen Centre of University of Southern Denmark. They state

"it is correct to point to the very ambivalent (and also very traumatic) elements in Andersen's emotional life concerning the sexual sphere, but it is decidedly just as wrong to describe him as homosexual and maintain that he had physical relationships with men. He did not. Indeed, that would have been entirely contrary to his moral and religious ideas, aspects that are quite outside the field of vision of Wullschlager and her like."

Wullschlager in fact argued that, because of moral and religious ideas of his time, Andersen could not be open about his homosexual relationships.

Andersen also fell in love with unattainable women, and many interpret references to them in his stories. At one point, he wrote in his diary: "Almighty God, thee only have I; thou steerest my fate, I must give myself up to thee! Give me a livelihood! Give me a bride! My blood wants love, as my heart does!" A girl named Riborg Voigt was the unrequited love of Andersen's youth. A small pouch containing a long letter from Voigt was found on Andersen's chest when he died, several decades after he first fell in love with her. Other disappointments in love included Sophie Ørsted,[citation needed ] the daughter of the physicist Hans Christian Ørsted; and Louise Collin,[citation needed ] the youngest daughter of his benefactor Jonas Collin. One of his stories, " The Nightingale", was written as an expression of his passion for Jenny Lind and was the inspiration for her nickname, the "Swedish Nightingale". Andersen was shy around women and had extreme difficulty proposing to Lind. When Lind was boarding a train to go to an opera concert, Andersen gave Lind a letter of proposal. Her feelings towards him were not the same; she saw him as a brother, writing to him in 1844: "farewell ... God bless and protect my brother is the sincere wish of his affectionate sister, Jenny". It is suggested that Andersen expressed his disappointment by portraying Lind as the eponymous antihero of " The Snow Queen".

Andersen at Rolighed: Israel Melchior (c. 1867)

In early 1872, at age 67, Andersen fell out of his bed and was severely hurt; he never fully recovered from the resultant injuries. Soon afterward, he started to show signs of liver cancer.

He died on 4 August 1875, in a country house called (literally: calmness) near Copenhagen, the home of his close friends, the banker Moritz G. Melchior and his wife. Shortly before his death, Andersen consulted a composer about the music for his funeral, saying: "Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with little steps."

His body was interred in the Assistens Kirkegård in the Nørrebro area of Copenhagen, in the Collin family plot. In 1914, the headstone was moved to another cemetery (today known as " Frederiksbergs ældre kirkegaard"), where younger Collin family members were buried. For a period, his, Edvard Collin's, and Henriette Collin's graves were unmarked. A second stone has been erected, marking Andersen's grave, now without any mention of the Collin couple, but all three still share the same plot.

At the time of his death, Andersen was internationally revered, and the Danish government paid him an annual stipend for being a "national treasure".

Archives, collections and museums

The Hans Christian Andersen Museum or H.C. Andersens Hus, is a set of museums/buildings dedicated to Hans Christian Andersen in Odense, Denmark, some of which, at various times in history, have functioned as the main Odense-based museum for the author.

The Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Solvang, California, a city founded by Danes, is devoted to presenting the author's life and works. Displays include models of Andersen's childhood home and of "The Princess and the Pea". The museum also contains hundreds of volumes of Andersen's works, including many illustrated first editions and correspondence with Danish composer Asger Hamerik.

The Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division was bequeathed an extensive collection of Andersen materials by the Danish-American actor Jean Hersholt.

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

La petite marchande d'allumettes (1928; in English: The Little Match Girl), film by Jean Renoir, based on "The Little Match Girl".

The Ugly Duckling (1931) and its 1939 remake of the same name, two animated Silly Symphonies cartoon shorts produced by Walt Disney Productions, based on The Ugly Duckling.

Andersen was played by Joachim Gottschalk in the German film The Swedish Nightingale (1941), which portrays his relationship with the singer Jenny Lind.

The Red Shoes (1948), British drama film written, directed, and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on "The Red Shoes".

Hans Christian Andersen (1952), an American musical film starring Danny Kaye that, though inspired by Andersen's life and literary legacy, was not meant to be historically nor biographically accurate; it begins by saying, "This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about this great spinner of fairy tales."

"The Second Day of Christmas", 26 December 1955 episode of Robert Montgomery Presents, Danish-born writer Sandra Michael's dramatization of Andersen's relationship with Jenny Lind, starring Lois Smith and Frank Schofield

The Snow Queen (1957), a Soviet animated film based on The Snow Queen, by Lev Atmanov of Soyuzmultfilm, a faithful depiction of the fairy tale that garnered critical acclaim.

The Rankin/Bass Productions-produced fantasy film, The Daydreamer (1966), depicts the young Hans Christian Andersen conceiving the stories he would later write.

The World of Hans Christian Andersen (1968), a Japanese anime fantasy film from Toei Doga, based on the works of Hans Christian Andersen.

Andersen Monogatari (1971), a Japanese animated anthology series produced by Mushi Production.

The Little Mermaid (1989), an animated film based on The Little Mermaid, created and produced at Walt Disney Feature Animation in Burbank, California.

Thumbelina (1994), an animated film based on "Thumbelina", created and produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios, Dublin, Ireland

One segment in Fantasia 2000 is based on "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", alongside Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2, Movement 1: "Allegro".

Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale (2003), a British made-for-television film directed by Philip Saville, a fictionalized account of Andersen's early successes, with his fairy stories intertwined with events in his own life.

The Fairytaler (2003), Danish-British animated series based on several Andersen fairy tales.

The Little Matchgirl (2006), an animated short film by the Walt Disney Animation Studios directed by Roger Allers and produced by Don Hahn.

The Snow Queen (2012), a Russian 3D animated film based on The Snow Queen, the first film of The Snow Queen series produced by Wizart Animation.

(2013), a 3D computer-animated musical film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios that is loosely inspired by The Snow Queen.

Ginger's Tale (2020), a Russian 2D animated film loosely based on The Tinderbox, produced at Vverh Animation Studio in Moscow.

The Little Mermaid (2023), a live-action film based on The Little Mermaid, created and produced by Walt Disney Pictures.

Literature

Andersen's stories laid the groundwork for other children's classics, such as The Wind in the Willows (1908) by Kenneth Grahame and Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) by A. A. Milne. The trope of inanimate objects, such as toys, coming to life (as in "Little Ida's Flowers") would later also be used by Lewis Carroll and Beatrix Potter.

Stage productions

For opera and ballet see List of The Little Mermaid Adaptations

Events and holidays

Andersen's refreshed gravestone at Assistens Cemetery in the Nørrebro district, Copenhagen

The year 2005, designated "Andersen Year" in Denmark,[74] was the bicentenary of Andersen's birth, and his life and work were celebrated around the world.

The annual H.C. Andersen Marathon, established in 2000, is held in Odense, Denmark.

Monuments and sculptures

Bronze bust (2004), a replica of the 1865 bust by Herman Wilhelm Bissen (1798-1868), at Observatory Hill, Millers Point, Sydney, Australia, was officially unveiled by HRH Crown Prince Frederik and HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark in March 2005, on Andersen's bicentenary. It was to replace the 1955 bust erected in Phillip Park, Sydney; although found missing by 1984.

Statue in Central Park, New York commemorating Andersen and The Ugly Duckling

Places named after Andersen

Theme parks

In Japan, the city of Funabashi has a children's theme park named after Andersen. Funabashi is a sister city to Odense, the city of Andersen's birth.

In China, a US$32 million theme park based on Andersen's tales and life opened in Shanghai's Yangpu district in 2017. Construction on the project began in 2005.

Other honours

Andersen's fairy tales include:

The Hans Christian Andersen Museum in Odense has a large digital collection of Hans Christian Andersen papercuts, drawings, and portraits.

Explanatory notes

General bibliography

Andersen, Jens (2005) [2003]. Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life (Illustrated ed.). New York, Woodstock, and London: Duckworth Overlook. ISBN 978-0-71563-361-8.

Binding, Paul (2014). Hans Christian Andersen : European witness. Yale University Press.

Bredsdorff, Elias (1975). Hans Christian Andersen: the story of his life and work 1805-75. Phaidon. ISBN 0-7148-1636-1.

Stig Dalager, Journey in Blue, historical, biographical novel about H.C. Andersen, London: Peter Owen, 2006; Toronto: McArthur & Co., 2006.

Frank, Diane Crone; Frank, Jeffrey (2004) [2003], The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen, London: Granta Books, ISBN 978-1-86207-712-6

Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Andersen, Hans Christian" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). pp. 958-959.

Roes, André, Kierkegaard en Andersen, Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg (2017) ISBN 978-94-6338-215-1

Ruth Manning-Sanders, Swan of Denmark: The Story of Hans Christian Andersen, Heinemann, 1949

Stirling, Monica (1965). The Wild Swan: The Life and Times of Hans Christian Andersen. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.

Wullschläger, Jackie (2000). Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0-713-99325-1.

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Hans Christian Andersen ( AN-dər-sən , Danish: [ˈhænˀsˈkʰʁestjænˈɑnɐsn̩] ; 2 April 1805 - 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories across nine volumes, have been translated into more than 125 languages.

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In 1872 Hans Christian Andersen fell ill with liver cancer. He passed away on August 4th, 1875 near Copenhagen.

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In 1872 Hans Christian Andersen fell ill with liver cancer. He passed away on August 4th, 1875 near Copenhagen.

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he wrote  the little mermaid  and  the ugly duckling

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his last journey was to Switzerland which happened to be 2 years before his death [1873]

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Christian Anderson fell out of his bed and never recovered and then had signs of liver cancer he died  august 4th 1875

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Christian Anderson fell out of his bed and never recovered and then had signs of liver cancer he died  august 4th 1875

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Hans Christian Andersen's first two installments of Fairy Tales were published in 1835.

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Hans Christian Andersen's first two installments of Fairy Tales were published in 1835.

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danish popular Legends
the Tinder-box
Little Claus and Big Claus
The Princess and the Pea
Little Ida`s Flowers
Little Tiny or Thumbelina
The Saucy Boy
The Travelling Companion
This Fable Is Intended for You
The Talisman
God Can Never Die
The Little Mermaid
The Emperor`s New Suit
The Goloshes of Fortune
The Daisy
The Brave Tin Soldier
The Wild Swans

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Hans Christian Anderson was born on the 2nd April 1805 and died in his 70s

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Hans Christian Andersen's gravestone is located at Assistens Cemetery in Copenhagen.

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Hans Christian Andersen's gravestone is located at Assistens Cemetery in Copenhagen.

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One of his earliest tales was written in the 1820s

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In 1845 Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales were translated into four different languages.

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Fairy Tales included the stories The Tinderbox, Little Claus and Big Claus, The Princess and the Pea, Little Ida's Flowers, Thumbelina, The Naughty Boy, The Traveling Companion, The Little Mermaid, and The Emperor's New Clothes.

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Fairy Tales included the stories The Tinderbox, Little Claus and Big Claus, The Princess and the Pea, Little Ida's Flowers, Thumbelina, The Naughty Boy, The Traveling Companion, The Little Mermaid, and The Emperor's New Clothes.

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He wrote ' The Little Mermaid ' and  'The ugly duckling '

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Hans Christian Andersen , the famed children's author who wrote fairy tales such as The Little Mermaid, and The Ugly Duckling, was born on April 2nd, 1805 in Odense, Funen, in the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway (now known as Denmark)

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