Glenn Bech

Glenn Bech is an author and psychologist based in Copenhagen, known among other things for his use of Danish ‘knækprosa’, or ‘snap prose’. His debut, The Fathership (forthcoming in English), won numerous awards and received rave reviews in the Danish press. His second book, I No Longer Acknowledge Your Authority, from which this piece is drawn, won more awards and received even raver reviews.

Articles

Julius, was the name of my first love
at summer camp
different rules applied, he & I were allowed
to hold hands
people smiled indulgently, called us ‘the couple’
‘the camp couple’
on my part, guilty as charged