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Copenhagen gets a Hans Christian Andersen place of its own
From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20041111
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AP Worldstream
11-11-2004
Dateline: COPENHAGEN, Denmark
A tiny attic room where Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen briefly lived in the Danish capital was opened to the public Thursday.
It was the first time that people can visit a place where the writer lived without having to travel to his birthplace in Odense.
Andersen was 22 when he moved into the eight square meter (86 square foot) room in April 1827 and lived there for a year. Although he didn't write any of his tales in the attic, a few of his 156 widely translated fairy tales and poems mention a room in the downtown ...
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