Michael Strunge

Biography:

Michael Strunge Jensen was a Danish poet. As a member of the original circle of 1980s poets in the group around Hvedekorn’s editor Poul Borum Michael Strunge in cooperation with his colleague Jens Fink-Jensen among others arranged the generational manifestation “NÅ!!80” in Copenhagen in 1980. He received the Otto Gelsted Prize in 1983. With influences from both Romanticism Symbolism and Modernism Strunge's work is somewhat reminiscent of that of French poet Arthur Rimbaud.