Bodil Steensen-Leth

Biography

Bodil Steensen-Leth, née Heide-Jørgensen (born 12 January 1945, Svendborg) is a Danish writer. She is the daughter of Henning Heide-Jørgensen and graduated from the Svendborg Gymnasium in 1963. After studying at the University of Oregon (1963–1964) and the University of Copenhagen, she married the landowner Christian Vincens Steensen-Leth in 1967 and moved to his Steensgård manorhouse in northern Langeland. At the same time she began a distance-learning course from Odense University, graduating MA in English in 1972.