In 2015, producer Gail Mutrux adapted the novel into an Oscar-winning film also called The Danish Girl, directed by Tom Hooper and starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander. An international bestseller, it has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. The novel won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, and was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award and an American Library Association Award, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. It is inspired by the life of Lili Elbe, one of the first people to have gender reassignment surgery. His debut novel, The Danish Girl, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name in 2015, while his third novel, The 19th Wife, was adapted into a television movie of the same name in 2010.Įbershoff published his first novel, The Danish Girl, in 2000. David Ebershoff is an American writer, editor, and teacher.
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