{{Short description|Danish literary magazine}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox magazine | image_file = | image_size = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = {{ubl|Poul Borum|Torben Brostrøm|Andreas Brøgger}} | frequency = Quarterly | circulation = | category = Literary magazine | company = | publisher = | founder = {{ubl|Knud Bruun-Rasmussen | Johannes Weltzer}} | founded = {{start date and age|1920}} | firstdate = | finaldate = | country = Denmark | based = Copenhagen | language = Danish | website = | issn = 0018-8093 | oclc = 759700216 }} '''''Hvedekorn''''' ({{langx|da|Grains of Wheat}}) is a Danish language literary magazine published in Copenhagen, Denmark, since 1920. It is one of the Danish publications which improved the cultural journalism in the country.<ref name=nete>{{cite book|author2=Unni From|year=2017 |author1=Nete Nørgaard Kristensen|author3=Aske Kammer|editor1=Nete Nørgaard Kristensen|editor2=Kristina Riegert|publisher=Nordicom|title=Cultural Journalism in the Nordic Countries|location=Gothenburg|isbn=978-91-87957-58-1|page=45|chapter=The Changing Logics of Danish Cultural Journalism |chapter-url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1656215&dswid=6952}}</ref>
==History and profile== The magazine was established in 1920<ref name=nete/><ref name="Sjavik2006">{{cite book|editor=Jan Sjåvik|year=2006|title=Historical Dictionary of Scandinavian Literature and Theater|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tCBpiKsi7a0C&pg=PA228|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6501-3|page=228|location=Lanham, MD; Toronto; Oxford}}</ref> under the name of ''Klinte''.<ref name=dsd>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Hvedekorn |encyclopedia=Den Store Danske Encyklopædi|url=https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/Hvedekorn|language=da|access-date=25 September 2023|author=Torben Brostrøm|date=26 June 2023}}</ref> Its founders were the expressionist artists Knud Bruun-Rasmussen and Johannes Weltzer.<ref name=dsd/> It was published with this title for one year and was renamed as ''Ung dansk Litteratur'' and then as ''Vild Hvede''.<ref name=dsd/><ref>{{cite book|author1=P. M. Mitchell|author2=Mogens Haugsted|title=A History of Danish Literature|year=1957|publisher=Gyldendal|location=Copenhagen |asin=B002I9PZDS}}</ref> The latter title was adopted during the editorship of Viggo F. Møller from 1930.<ref name=dsd/> Halfdan Rasmussen and the cartoonist Ernst Clausen took over the editorship in 1952, and they renamed the magazine as ''Hvedekorn''.<ref name=dsd/>
''Hvedekorn'' is based in Copenhagen<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.afsnitp.dk/aktuelt/aktueltarkiv/5/onoffatafsnitp.d.html|title=On Off Project |publisher=Afsnitp|access-date=28 October 2014}}</ref> and is a literary magazine, specializing in poetry.<ref>{{cite web|work=One Million Donkeys|archive-date=28 October 2014|url-status=dead|title=Hvedekorn|url=http://onemillionmonkeys.dk/project/hvedekorn/|access-date=28 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028235126/http://onemillionmonkeys.dk/project/hvedekorn/}}</ref> Danish poets Inger Christensen and Marianne Larsen are among the contributors of the magazine.<ref>{{cite book|title=International Who's Who in Poetry 2005|year=2004|location=London; New York|edition=13th|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mAY2Ja6t6eAC&pg=PA909|publisher=Europa Publications|isbn=978-1-135-35519-7|pages=908–909|chapter=Larsen, Marianne}}</ref><ref name=jakob>{{cite news|author1=Charles Lock|author2=Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/feb/19/inger-christensen-obituary|title=Obituary Inger Christensen|work=The Guardian|access-date=28 October 2014|date=19 February 2009}}</ref> The other well-known contributors include Tom Kristensen and Tove Ditlevsen.<ref name=Sjavik2006/>
Poul Borum, a critic and poet, served as the editor-in-chief of ''Hvedekorn'' between 1968 and 1996.<ref name=dsd/><ref name=jakob/> Another editor-in-chief was Torben Brostrøm.<ref>{{cite journal|author=P. M. Mitchell|title=Contemporary Danish Criticism: Media, Methods and Men|journal=Scandinavian Studies|date=August 1962|volume=34|issue=3|page=165|jstor=40916395}}</ref> In 1996 Andreas Brøgger became its editor-in-chief.<ref>{{cite web|title=On Net Art|work=Artists' Association MUU|url=http://www.muu.fi/digital/speakers.html|access-date=28 October 2014 |date=May 2003|archive-date=26 October 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051026082400/http://www.muu.fi/digital/speakers.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The editorial staff of ''Hvedekorn'' has consisted of poetry editor Lars Bukdahl and art editor Christian Vind since 2008.<ref name=dsd/>
==See also== *List of magazines in Denmark
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hvedekorn}} Category:1920 establishments in Denmark Category:Danish-language magazines Category:Literary magazines published in Denmark Category:Magazines established in 1920 Category:Magazines published in Copenhagen Category:Poetry literary magazines Category:Quarterly magazines published in Denmark