Carsten Jensen is a Danish author and political columnist. He first earned recognition as a literary critic for the Copenhagen daily, Politiken. His books, including I Have Seen the World Begin (1996), deal with knowledge of the world. He is most famous for his book "We, the Drowned" - a chronicle about the birth of modern Denmark - and the 2015 novel "The First Stone" about the Afghanistan War.

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