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12/05/2005
British Library celebrates Hans Christian Andersen
An exhibition celebrating the bicentenary of Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen will open at the British Library in London next week.
Andersen, the only son of a poor shoemaker and an illiterate washerwoman, was born in Odense in Denmark in April 1805.
When he was 14 years old he walked to Copenhagen and, after charming a cook into letting him enter a grand dinner party given by a wealthy composer, became for the rest of his life a full-time houseguest.
In the 1830s he began the tales which made him world famous.
The exhibition, which runs from 20 May until 2 October, will bring together rare books and manuscripts from the British Library collection, and loans which have never before left his native Denmark.
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