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In his six years as a novelist during a very brief life, Mogens Klitgaard succeeded in writing six books that made him one o f Denmark’s most interesting social-critical realist and historical novelists o f the interwar period. He has been called “ [t]he central representative o f the period's ironic-elegant everyday realism” and “one o f Danish realism’s classics.”
Klitgaard was bom into a solidly middle-class family in Valby— an industrializing village that had been incorporated into Copenhagen in 1901—on August 23,1906. His father was a department head o f the umbrella organization o f the Danish consumer co-operative stores (Fcellesforeningen afDanmarks brugsforeninger). His secure childhood began to dissolve at the age o f six when his 42-year-old mother died o f cancer in 1913; by the age o f ten he had become an orphan when his father also died o f cancer at 47 in 1916. After briefly living w ith his stepmother— his father had married the family’s maid the year after his wife’s death—who had never shown any interest in him or his older sister, he moved in with his aunt and uncle in nearby (and relatively affluent) Frederiksberg. Although they were fond o f him, the childless couple did not feel equal to the task o f being parents and in 1917 they placed him in the Royal Orphanage (Det kongelige Opfostringshus) in Copenhagen, which had been founded by King Frederik V in 1753.