Claus Ankersen, described as an “intergalactic traveller”, is a writer, poet, artist, performer, literary activist, and translator from Denmark. Writing bilingually and working internationally, he has performed his poetry at literature festivals in more 20 countries. He is the author of 17 books, with works translated into Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian, Romanian, German, Udmurt, Bulgarian, English, Uzbek, Spanish, Malayalam, Chinese, and Macedonian. He has contributed to various international anthologies and published original full collections of poetry in Ukraine (2016), India (2018, 2021), and Romania (2019). As a literary translator, Claus has translated works by the Ukrainian poet Zury Zavadsky, the Indian poet Tishani Doshi, and Czech poet Jana Orlová. His work has seen support by the Danish Arts Foundation and he is the recipient of multiple international fellowships.

In Denmark, his most recent books include a collection of rhymed yoga poems, YOGA ABC (2021), and a collection of poems on the pandemic Dansen om pigkuglen – digte fra det covidcæne /The Dance around the Spiked Sphere – Poems from the Covidcene (2021). Also in 2021, Claus published his second full-length poetry collection in India, when his travelogue River of Man – Indian Poems was published by Red River.

Claus holds a degree in Anthropology from the University of Copenhagen and currently serves as Chairman/President of Danish Authors of Fiction and Poetry. He is also a founding member of Poets Of the Planet (POP).

Claus Ankersen – Poets of the Planet