Literary Birthday – 2 April – Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen was born on 2 April 1805 and died on 4 August 1875.
Hans Christian Andersen Quotes
- Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
- The whole world is a series of miracles… but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.
- Travelling expands the mind rarely.
- Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
- Where words fail, music speaks.
- Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.
- I shall be of some use in the world, as everyone ought to be; it is the only way to be happy.
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet. Although he wrote many plays, novels, travel books, several autobiographies, and poems, he is best remembered for his Fairy Tales. Andersen’s fairy tales, consisting of 156 stories, have been translated into more than 125 languages. They have become embedded in Western collective consciousness. His most famous tales include “The Little Mermaid”, “The Princess and the Pea”, “The Snow Queen”, “The Ugly Duckling”, “The Little Match Girl”, and “Thumbelina.” Part of what makes some of the tales so compelling is Andersen’s identification with the unfortunate and the outcast. His works have been adapted into many forms. At the time of his death, Andersen was internationally revered, and the Danish government paid him an annual stipend for being a “national treasure.”
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