Niels Hav was awarded the Danish Literature Prize 2024 from Ragna Sidéns and Vagn Clausens Foundation. He is the author of ten volumes of prose and poetry. His books are widely translated into languages including e.g. Portuguese, Dutch, Arabic, Turkish, English, Serbian, Kurdish, Albanian and Farsi. Frequently interviewed by the media, as he has travelled widely in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America and participated in numerous literary events. His poems and stories have been published in a large num ber of journals, magazines and newspapers around the world. Niels Hav was raised on a farm in western Denmark. Today he resides with his wife the concert pianist Christina Bjørkøe in the most colourful and multi-ethnic part of the Danish capital, Copenhagen. His new English poetry collection Moments of Happiness is published by Anvil Press in Vancouver. Frank Hugus, in The Literary Review described Hav as: “...one of Denmark’s most talented living poets...”