Anns Christian Andersen Accomplishments

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Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), a Danish fairy tale writer in the Nineteenth Century who is known as "the sun of the world's children's literature." Andersen's representative works include "Daughter of the Sea," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Emperor's New Clothes" and so on. Andersen was born in a poor shoemaker's family in Odense city and had an unfortunate childhood. Influenced by his father and folk oral literature, he loved literature from a young age. When he was 11 years old, his father died, his mother remarried. In pursuit of art, he came to the capital, Copenhagen, at the age of 14. Andersen began his literary career in 1822. After entering the University, the creation is becoming more and more mature. Andersen not only gets an entirely