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A poet and novelist, Thorup has also written for television. She grew up in the countryside where her father was a bookseller and owned a kiosk. The first of her family to receive a higher education, Thorup often writes of the sense of alienation she has felt as an outsider both in her hometown and in her new academic environment. Thorup's prose show more is written in a realistic mode with a keen interest in psychology. Her poetry shows modernist influences. (Bowker Author Biography) show less