Founded:
1997
Duration:
July 18 – August 15
Paid by host:

Accommodation; DKK 10,000 to cover other expenses, such as food, as well as a refund of up to DKK 5,000 (DKK 7.000 overseas) for travel expenses.

Paid by artist:

Board, food, etc.

Application guidelines:

Currently they do not have an international program for the time being. Writers that speak and understand Scandinavian can applying for residency within the national program.

A new program will be announced by the 8 March 2022.

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Hald Hovedgaard

Hald Hovedgaard

The Danish Centre for Writers and Translators
Description

Since 1999, the Danish Centre for Writers and Translators has offered Danish authors, translators and illustrators free working residencies at the old manor Hald Hovedgaard, situated 10 kilometres from the town of Viborg, in the middle of Denmark.

The summer of 2009 saw the launching of the program “International Residency for Writers at Hald”, called H.A.L.D. (Housing Authors & Literature, Denmark).

The H.A.L.D. program selects four fiction authors from abroad* to live and work alongside selected Danish fiction authors in Hald Hovedgaard’s main building.

The foreign authors will live and work at Hald under the same conditions as writers during a working residency at Hald normally do. Each author will work on the writing project that he or she has brought along to Hald and will be responsible for providing his/her own food and toiletries. The principal purpose of this international cultural and literary encounter is the informal meeting of professional writers, living door to door in an inspiring environment.

* Writers of all nationalities are welcome, but Nordic speaking writers are referred to our normal residency program.

Accommodation Information

Each guest has his or her own room, furnished with a desk, office chair, bed and easy chair. The bathroom and toilet are in the hallway.
Guests are responsible for procuring and preparing their own food. Hald’s large, well-equipped kitchen is at the guests’ disposal.
The manor house’s other rooms – the dining room, fireplace study, garden room and banquet hall – can be used by all guests.

Location

Hald Hovedgaard and the town of Viborg are situated in the middle of Denmark, in mid-Jutland, the peninsula that protrudes out of northern Germany.

The distance to the Danish capital of Copenhagen is about 350 km. (approx. 230 miles), a trip that takes 3½ - 4 hours by car, or about 4½ hours (from Viborg station) by train.

Contact information

Ravnsbjergvej 76
8800 Viborg
Denmark

Email
pqr [at] haldhovedgaard.dk
Phone
+45 86 638410
Website
http://www.haldhovedgaard.dk
Fax
+45 86 638424