Rebecca Bach-Lauritsen (b. 1976) is a graduate from the Author School for Children’s Literature in Copenhagen. Her debut came in 2011 with Veronica sounds like Harmonica. In 2020 she was nominated for the Nordic Council’s Children’s Book and YA Literature Prize.
Her books are sold in translation to China, France, Korea, Norway and the US.
Here is what the Danish Arts' Foundation said about her when she was awarded with a substantial working grant in 2026:
"Rebecca Bach-Lauritsen writes with a remarkable respect for the child as a human being. Not as a project, not as a pedagogical figure, not as something to be shaped by adult gazes. She knows that childhood can be a violent place, full of jealousy, love, longing, imagination and the first experience of being alone in the world.
Rebecca writes clearly, but never poorly. Her language is simple in the way that requires great skill. She can place an emotion in a space with a few lines, and she can let a child step onto the page with all the strength and vulnerability that we easily overlook in everyday life. In her books, warmth, humor and pain exist side by side, because that is also how life is when you are young. She does not make the world smaller for children. She makes it bigger so that they can be in it, and therefore her books also have significance far beyond their own target group."
August M Poulsen
