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BERLINGSKE, One of Scandinavia's oldest newspapers, wrote:

"BRAVO; BREINHOLST!
Willy Breinholst came on the German bestseller lists. He marched past world-known authors such as Heinrich Böll, Tolkien, George Orwell, ALdoux Huxley, Thomas Main, Graham Greene, George Simenon, Chesterton, Dickens, Murdoch, Zweig, Capote, Fallada, Hemingway, Saroyan, Somerset, Maugham, Canetti and Mark Twain.
At the magazine Der Spiegel's top-ten list You could find his books as number 1-2-4-5-7!"

GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS, has for twelve years noted:

"WILLY BREINHOLST
IS WITHOUT A DOUBT
THE MOST WIDELY
READ AUTHOR
OF HUMOR
IN THE WORLD"

PRIZE-WINNING HUMOR

Willy Breinholst’s books are read all over the World from the Republic of South Africa and Australia to Siberia, Greenland and Iceland in the North. He has been awarded the Lübbe Ehrenpreis for 4.000.000 sold Lübbe-books. He has been awarded the Danish Humorist Prize, the Carl Möller Prize, the Bulgarian Hitar-Peter Medal and the Icelandic Heimaey Medal for his books. Other recipients of the Icelandic Heimaey Medal have been the Icelandic president, the Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness – and Bing Crosby!

The Danish bestseller-writer Willy Breinholst has written 165 books. No wonder, he has been chosen among 150 authors to be awarded THE ALEKO KONSTANTINOV PRIZE at The International Prose-Writing Competition as one of the best writers in the world. Other recipients of The Aleko Konstantinov Prize during the years: Erskine Caldwell, Erich Kästner, Heinrich Böll, William Saroyan.

Miami Sunday Paper:

“WILLY BREINHOLST
IS WRITER OF THE
FUNNIEST PIECES
OF LITERATURE
EVER PRINTED”

BERLINGSKE, THE LEADING SCANDINAVIAN DAILY PAPER, WROTE:

“If H.C. Andersen were alive today, he’d be green with envy over Willy Breinholst’s world wide success!”