Theis Ørntoft (b. 1984) attended the Danish School of Writing from 2007 to 2009. He made his debut as a writer in 2009 with the poetry collection Yeah Suiten, and from then on he was recognized as one of the most distinctive voices of his generation.
For Yeah Suiten he received Denmark's largest debutant award, the Bodil and Jørgen Munch-Christensen Cultural Grant, and the poetry collection was also nominated for the Montana Literature Prize 2009.
In 2014, Theis Ørntoft published his second poetry collection, the critically acclaimed Digte 2014, for which he also received several literary prizes and nominations.
His first novel, Solar, was published in 2018. Solar is a modern adventure through Jutland forests, Copenhagen nightclubs, Fitness World, unexpected love, animal underworlds, wild sex and sunlight. And a desperate, dystopian generational novel, a hallucinated road trip and a space journey into the reptilian brain.
In 2023, Theis Ørntoft was ready with his second novel, Jordisk (Worldly) - a sprawling tale of love and work, nature and capitalism, of gold, silver, oil, marble and the slow decline of the West, but above all, of a three-generation family connected across time and space in ways they don't even realize. The work received a stunning response from the critics as well as the readers.
