Hvedekorn
{{Short description|Danish literary magazine}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}
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| previous_editor = {{ubl|Poul Borum|Torben Brostrøm|Andreas Brøgger}}
| frequency = Quarterly
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| category = Literary magazine
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| founder = {{ubl|Knud Bruun-Rasmussen | Johannes Weltzer}}
| founded = {{start date and age|1920}}
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| country = Denmark
| based = Copenhagen
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| issn = 0018-8093
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Hvedekorn ({{langx|da|Grains of Wheat}}) is a Danish language literary magazine published in Copenhagen, Denmark, since 1920. It is one of the Danish publications which improved the cultural journalism in the country.{{cite book|author2=Unni From|year=2017
|author1=Nete Nørgaard Kristensen|author3=Aske Kammer|editor1=Nete Nørgaard Kristensen|editor2=Kristina Riegert|publisher=Nordicom|title=Cultural Journalism in the Nordic Countries|location=Gothenburg|isbn=978-91-87957-58-1|page=45|chapter=The Changing Logics of Danish Cultural Journalism
|chapter-url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1656215&dswid=6952}}
History and profile
The magazine was established in 1920{{cite book|editor=Jan Sjåvik|year=2006|title=Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tCBpiKsi7a0C&pg=PA228|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6501-3|page=228|location=Lanham, MD; Toronto; Oxford}} under the name of Klinte.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Hvedekorn
|encyclopedia=Den Store Danske Encyklopædi|url=https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Hvedekorn|language=da|access-date=25 September 2023|author=Torben Brostrøm|date=26 June 2023}} Its founders were the expressionist artists Knud Bruun-Rasmussen and Johannes Weltzer. It was published with this title for one year and was renamed as Ung dansk Litteratur and then as Vild Hvede.{{cite book|author1=P. M. Mitchell|author2=Mogens Haugsted|title=A History of Danish Literature|year=1957|publisher=Gyldendal|location=Copenhagen
|asin=B002I9PZDS}} The latter title was adopted during the editorship of Viggo F. Møller from 1930. Halfdan Rasmussen and the cartoonist Ernst Clausen took over the editorship in 1952, and they renamed the magazine as Hvedekorn.
Hvedekorn is based in Copenhagen{{cite web|url=http://www.afsnitp.dk/aktuelt/aktueltarkiv/5/onoffatafsnitp.d.html|title=On Off Project
|publisher=Afsnitp|access-date=28 October 2014}} and is a literary magazine, specializing in poetry.{{cite web|work=One Million Donkeys|archive-date=28 October 2014|url-status=dead|title=Hvedekorn|url=http://onemillionmonkeys.dk/project/hvedekorn/|access-date=28 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028235126/http://onemillionmonkeys.dk/project/hvedekorn/}} Danish poets Inger Christensen and Marianne Larsen are among the contributors of the magazine.{{cite book|title=International Who's Who in Poetry 2005|year=2004|location=London; New York|edition=13th|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mAY2Ja6t6eAC&pg=PA909|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1-135-35519-7|pages=908–909|chapter=Larsen, Marianne}}{{cite news|author1=Charles Lock|author2=Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/feb/19/inger-christensen-obituary|title=Obituary Inger Christensen|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 October 2014|date=19 February 2009}} The other well-known contributors include Tom Kristensen and Tove Ditlevsen.
Poul Borum, a critic and poet, served as the editor-in-chief of Hvedekorn between 1968 and 1996. Another editor-in-chief was Torben Brostrøm.{{cite journal|author=P. M. Mitchell|title=Contemporary Danish Criticism: Media, Methods and Men|journal=Scandinavian Studies|date=August 1962|volume=34|issue=3|page=165|jstor=40916395}} In 1996 Andreas Brøgger became its editor-in-chief.{{cite web|title=On Net Art|work=Artists' Association MUU|url=http://www.muu.fi/digital/speakers.html|access-date=28 October 2014
|date=May 2003|archive-date=26 October 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051026082400/http://www.muu.fi/digital/speakers.html|url-status=dead}}
The editorial staff of Hvedekorn has consisted of poetry editor Lars Bukdahl and art editor Christian Vind since 2008.
See also
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Category:Magazines established in 1920
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