Sophus Helle
Writer, Translator and Cultural Historian/Postdoctoral Fellow, Free University of Berlin
Sophus Helle is a writer, translator and cultural historian, whose translations of Gilgamesh and the poems of Enheduana have become the basis of various modern adaptations. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Free University of Berlin with a stipend from the Carlsberg Foundation. His work has been published in Postcolonial Studies and the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, among others.
Written by Sophus Helle
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Stories and literature
Poet of impermanence
Enheduana is the first known named author. Her poems of strife and upheaval resonate in our own unstable times
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Film and visual culture
Love isn’t what it was
In a strangely unremarked-upon twist, Disney films have taken to subverting romance and rethinking the happy-ever-afters
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Stories and literature
Between gods and animals: becoming human in the Gilgamesh epic
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