Jeppe Aakjær dialect writer he is the heir of Blicher. But he was also inspired by Robert Burns, whose "Auld lang syne" he translated into Jutlandish dialect. Together with Johannes Vilhelm Jensen and Martin Andersen Nexø he is one of the outstanding "new realists" from the 1910s though never that famous outside Denmark. In many ways he is a literary figure of transition between old rural culture and modern socialist agitation. As a castigator of society, he was popular, even among his opponents. His first wife was the author Marie Bregendahl, known for her regionalist works. Translations of Aakjær Video Jeppe Aakjær
Eugene Lang (author) Eugene Lang (author) Eugene Lang was a former chief of staff to two of Canada’s Liberal ministers of defence from 2002 to 2006. He co-authored with Janice Gross Stein a book "The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar" (Penguin, 2007) The Liberal Party, after dominating Canadian politics since the 1920s, has been in decline in the 21st century. As Lang (2010) concludes, they lost their majority in Parliament in the 2004 election, were defeated in 2006, and in 2008 became little more than a rump, falling to their lowest seat count and popular vote since the 1980s. Furthermore, says Lang, its