Who Gets to Take Up Space?

Name: Who Gets to Take Up Space?
Start: 2026-09-29T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-29T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Klostergadecentret

took place · 29 Sep 2026

Klostergadecentret, Aarhus

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Conversation Salon and Author Evening with Caspar Eric

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Gallo Huset presents a lecture with Caspar Eric.

About: Caspar Eric

Poet, activist and one of the most prominent voices in Denmark's disability debate, Caspar Eric has spent a decade putting words to life with cerebral palsy. His eight collections - ending with Crip (2025), which he has declared his last - combine personal testimony with sharp political critique of the welfare state.

published poetry collections

Weekendavisen Literature Prize 2025

Politiken Literature Prize 2025

Bjørnson Prize 2024 (Norway)

What's new

2026-04
The poetry collection Crip is being staged as a theatrical production at REVOLVER/Østerbro Teater with premiere on April 16, 2026, directed by Emil Rostrup.
2026-01
Caspar Eric received Weekendavisen's Literature Prize 2025 for the poetry collection Crip.
2025-08
Caspar Eric published the poetry collection Crip on August 20, 2025 at Gyldendal - and declared it his last.

Tracks

7/11Debut poetry collection, Gyldendal 2014 - portrait of a generation in the digital age

NikeLong poem from 2015 about living with cerebral palsy - turning point in the author's career

Nye balancerPoetry collection 2023, nominated for the Critics' Prize and basis for the Bjørnson Prize 2024

CripLatest and declared final poetry collection (2025), won Weekendavisen's and Politiken's Literature Prize 2025

Undskyld vi er her2023 book arising from viral Instagram appeal against cuts in disability services

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