On graduating, she worked as a lecturer in literary history at the library school and in parallel became a literary reviewer at Berlingske Tidende as well as a reviewer at Politiken.[1] In the 1980s, she also held managerial positions in connection with literature and theatre at Danmarks Radio, after which she devoted her time to writing.[3]
She became increasingly involved in literary criticism, publishing Kritikhistorie – en antologi (History of Criticism - an Anthology) in 1972. She then turned to children's literature, pioneering its inclusion in literary research supported by a number of publications in the early 1990s.[3]
As a novelist, she made a successful debut with Skriverjomfruen in 1988 about the 18th-century writer Charlotta Dorothea Biehl which was later dramatized. She went on to write several detective stories including Novemberlys (1990), Sandflugt (1991), Den femte vinter (1993) and Grønt mørke (1994). More recently, she wrote stage plays, children's books and more novels.[2][3]
