- Born in 1971 in Denmark, Anne Fortier is the author of the Newyork times bestseller 'Juliet'. Juliet takes place in Siena (Sienna) in Italy and is based on the story of Romeo and Juliet. A film adaption based on the Novel is currently in production by Paramount/Montecito with director James Mangold and multiples writers from Hollywood and Bollywood on board. Earlier Fortier has also co-produced the Emmy Award-winning documentary Fire and Ice: The Winter War of Finland and Russia.
Thanks to her mother, Birgit Malling Eriksen, Anne developed a love of music and languages at a very early age. She began writing her first novel at the age 11 and since then, she has written the novels Hyrder på bjerget (in Danish, 2005),Juliet (in English, 2010), Julie (co-written with Nina Bolt in Danish, 2013), Amazonerne's Ring (in Danish, 2013) and The Lost Sisterhood (in English, 2014).
During her Ph.D. in the History of Ideas from Aarhus University, Denmark, Fortier spent two terms at Corpus Christi College, Oxford as an Associate Graduate Member. In 2002, the Danish / Canadian writer shifted to the US.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Daniel Li
- I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.
- While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002.
- Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman.
- Ever since childhood, I've been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.
- A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.
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