/
RSS Feed
Before Andersen, fairy tales were folk stories—crude, violent, passed down orally. He made them literature: personal, emotional, philosophical. Born poor and mocked for his awkward looks in 1805 Denmark, he transformed suffering into stories about outsiders finding beauty. “The Ugly Duckling,” “The Little Mermaid,” “The Snow Queen”—200 years later, his tales still shape how we tell stories about transformation, sacrifice, and belonging.