Mogens Klitgaard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mogens Klitgaard

Danish author

Date of Birth: 23-Aug-1906

Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 23-Dec-1945

Profession: writer, author

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Mogens Klitgaard (1906-1945) was a Danish author.
He published the novel Gud mildner Luften for de klippede Faar in 1938, about the superficiality of the bourgeoisie.
He is most well-known, however, for his portrait of the man on the floor in Der sidder en Mand i en Sporvogn (1937) about a deroute during the economic crisis of the 1930s.As a result of his activity in the Danish resistance movement, he fled to Sweden in 1943.
He survived the war, but died soon after as a result of a recurrence of his childhood tuberculosis.