Mathilde Walter Clark is an award-winning Danish novelist and essayist. She was born and raised by her mother near Copenhagen, and spent many of her childhood summers with her American father in St. Louis, USA. She studied philosophy and Danish at New York University and Roskilde University. Her first novel, Thorsten Madsens Ego, was published in 2004, after which she was recieved Discovery of the Year from the Carlsberg Foundation. Her sixth book, Lone Star, a genre-bending meditaion on time, memory and her trans-atlantic upbringing published in 2018, was nominated for the Danish Broadcast Cooperation’s Novel Price and awarded by the Danish Art Foundation. In 2023 she published two bestselling books on animals, How To Make Animals and the groundbreaking work, A Blind Eye, which was described as an eminent hybrid between novel, essay and investigative journalism. It won six awards and changed the conversation about animals in Denmark.