This writer, born in a Scandinavian slum in 1805, grew up with a mother who never learned to read but remembered dozens of old folk tales. When his father died, the young son son had to go to work, as a weaver, a tailor and in a tobacco factory. He had a beautiful singing voice and he moved to the big city hoping to find work on stage, but then his voice changed, and he decided to become a poet. He had no luck selling his work until he began to publish the tales his mother used to tell him, and he's been called the father of the modern fairy tale. This is Hans Christian Andersen, who died in 1875 mourned by the whole world.
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