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Finn Abrahamowitz (1939–2006)

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Legal name
Abrahamowitz, Finn Castella
Birthdate
1939-12-02
Date of death
2006-08-04
Gender
male
Nationality
Denmark
Birthplace
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Places of residence
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Sweden
Ubberupp, Denmark
Education
University of Coopenhagen
Occupations
painter
journalist
psychology writer
novelist
Holocaust survivor
teacher (show all 9)
high school principal
biographer
memoirist
Awards and honors
Gyldendals Boglegat (1985)
Short biography
Finn Abrahamowitz was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark, the son of Herman Abramowitz, a Jewish master tailor, and his wife Emma Castella, a Christian. In 1943, during the Nazi occupation of Denmark in World War II, the family fled across the Øresund strait to seek refuge in Sweden. Finn went to school in Sweden and attended gymnasium (high school) in Denmark after the war. He became a painter in Paris in the early 1960s. He made his literary debut in 1966 with the novel Two Days, Eight Months Later. He then returned to Denmark and studied literary and cultural lsociology at the University of Copenhagen. From 1970 to 2000, he worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper Information, where he wrote reviews of psychology and psychiatry books and eventually published some psychology textbooks himself. From 1971 to 1989, he was also a teacher at Krabbesholm High School and then headmaster of Ubberup High School until 1995. From 1995, he supported himself full-time as a writer. His other novels included Master of Pain (1985) and Riddle of the Sphinx (1987), about Herman Bang and Sigmund Freud, respectively. He also wrote biographies such as Grundtvig: Good Luck Denmark (2000) and Jesus: A Biography (2002). He published a childhood memoir called When I Was Little, Denmark was Big, in 2003. He married Jane Rumberger in 1983.

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