Madame Nielsen Author

Madame Nielsen is a novelist, artist, performer, world history enactor, composer, chanteuse — and multi-gendered. Born as Claus Beck-Nielsen in 1963 in Aalborg, Denmark, she is the author of numerous literary works. A pioneer of ‘performative biographies’ and ‘Scandinavian autofiction’, the artist declared the death of Claus Beck-Nielsen in 2001, published Claus Beck-Nielsen (1963-2001) A Biography, followed by The Suicide Mission and continues to work as Madame Nielsen. My Encounters with The Great Authors of Our Nation was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize and Endless Summer became a great success in Germany. Her work has been translated into nine languages.