Books set in Copenhagen, Denmark

Denmark — Copenhagen

2016
Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
Dorthe Nors · novel · 2016
A translator from Jutland learns to drive, and to live, in Copenhagen.
2007
The Keeper of Lost Causes
Jussi Adler-Olsen · crime · 2007
A sidelined Copenhagen detective reopens the case of a vanished politician.
2000
The Danish Girl
David Ebershoff · novel · 2000
1920s: a Copenhagen painter becomes Lili Elbe, a pioneer of gender transition.
1998
Copenhagen
Michael Frayn · play · 1998
1941: Heisenberg visits Bohr in occupied Copenhagen. What did they say?
1992
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow
Peter Høeg · thriller · 1992
A boy falls from a Copenhagen roof; Smilla reads his tracks in the snow.
1967
Childhood
Tove Ditlevsen · memoir · 1967
1920s: a working-class girl grows up in Vesterbro, dreaming of being a poet.