Søren Gyldendal
Søren Gyldendal was a Danish bookstore owner who founded Gyldendal which became Denmark's largest publishing house.Biography
Søren Jensen Gyldendal was born at Aars in Vesthimmerland, Denmark. Gyldendal attended Aarhus Katedralskole, graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 1766 and took the examen philosophicum the following year. He acquired a bookstore and in 1770 he begun his independent publishing house.
Every year on the anniversary of his birthday, the Søren Gyldendal Foundation awards a prize in his name, the Søren Gyldendal Prize. Since 2009, the prize has been DKK 200,000. Every second year a fiction writer is awarded and every second year the prize goes to a non-fiction author.
