The Right to a Father: The letters of Anne Sofie Hardenberg

Annotated by Pia Christensen Bang
Translated by Susan Stanley

144 pages, 5.5 x 7.75"
16 pages of color and black and white photographs
May 2018
ISBN 978-0-9967480-3-2
$25 paperback

In the 40's and 50's many men traveled to Greenland from Denmark to work. Here they met Greenlandic women – which more than once resulted in pregnancies. Many of these men then returned to Denmark, which meant that the children grew up as illegitimate children without ever knowing their fathers. One of these children was Anne Sofie Hardenberg, who was teased all through her childhood for having a Danish father – and an absent one at that. By the age of 17 she gathered the courage to write to her father. To her surprise he was very glad to hear from her, and wished to make her part of his family. Unfortunately they only got three weeks together – then he died in a car accident…

This is Anne Sofie's memoir accompanied by photos and letters between her and her Danish family.