Claus Ankersen

Claus Ankersen is a writer, poet, artist, performer, literary activist, and translator from Denmark. He writes bilingually and works internationally, having performed his poetry at literature festivals in more than 20 countries around the world. He is the author of 17 books, and his poems has been translated more than 15 languages and published in the reviews and anthologies. As a literary translator, Claus has translated collections by Ukrainian poet, Zury Zavadsky, the Indian poet Tishani Doshi as well as Czech poet Jana Orlová. His latest books are a collection of rhymed yoga poems, YOGA ABC (2021), and a collection of poems on the pandemic Dansen om pigkuglen – digte fra det covidcæne /The Dance around the Spiked Sphere – Poems from the Covidcene (2021). In 2021 Claus also has the publication of his second book-long collection of poetry in India, when his travelogue River of Man – Indian Poems was published by Red River.