Thorkild Hansen

Thorkild Hansen (9 January 1927 – 4 February 1989) was a Danish novelist most noted for his historical fiction. He is popularly known for his trilogy of novels about the Danish slave trade which is composed of ''Coast of Slaves'' (1967), ''Ships of Slaves'' (1968), and ''Islands of Slaves'' (1970; for which he received the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1971). Provided by Wikipedia