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A portrait of Christian Petersen smiling and looking away from the camera. He is wearing a cap, blue shirt and jacket.
A hardback book laying flat. The book is named Efter København which is in large blue foil writing, along with a blue and pink foil plant illustration.
A pink, blue, white and purple graphic illustration of a building with the idea of water at the edges of the image with small illustrated boats.

Illustration lecturer’s book wins Denmark’s Most Beautiful Book competition

Christian Petersen, a lecturer of BA (Hons) Illustration has won Denmark’s Most Beautiful Book competition in the graphic novel category with his book Efter København.

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A portrait of Christian Petersen smiling and looking away from the camera. He is wearing a cap, blue shirt and jacket.

The climate fiction graphic novel Efter København (After Copenhagen) is freely based on Richard Jeffries book After London (1885) and John Ruskin’s lectures, The Storm-cloud of the Nineth Century (1884). It was published by @forlagetforlaens in 2022.

Denmark’s Most Beautiful Book #åretsbedstebogarbejde has been awarded by @boghaandvaerk since 1934. Efter København will be included in a publication, traveling exhibition and automatically qualify for the World’s Most Beautiful Book competition, which will take place in Frankfurt, Germany later this year.

A hardback book laying flat. The book is named Efter København which is in large blue foil writing, along with a blue and pink foil plant illustration.

Efter København book

A pink, blue, white and purple graphic illustration of a building with the idea of water at the edges of the image with small illustrated boats.

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You can find Christian Petersen’s book, Efter København, in Norwich University of the Arts’ library.

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