page_title: Yahya Hassan
hierarchical_section_title: Yahya Hassan
caption_attribution_description: English: Danish poet and writer with Palestinian background at Kuben Vocational Arena, Oslo Norsk bokmål: Dansk poet og dikter ved Kuben yrkesarena i Oslo
context_page_description: Yahya Hassan was a Danish poet and political activist of Palestinian descent, whose poems and public statements criticizing both Islam and Danish policies on migration and participation in armed conflicts made him a much-debated and controversial figure.
  His most notable work, Yahya Hassan, as of 2013 was the best-selling debut poetry collection in Denmark, and has been printed in more than 120,000 copies.
context_section_description: Yahya Hassan (19 May 1995 – 29 April 2020) was a Danish poet and political activist of Palestinian descent, whose poems and public statements criticizing both Islam and Danish policies on migration and participation in armed conflicts made him a much-debated and controversial figure.
  His most notable work, Yahya Hassan, as of 2013 was the best-selling debut poetry collection in Denmark, and has been printed in more than 120,000 copies (middle of 2015).
caption: Hassan in October 2015
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