Charlotte Weitze, born 1974, is a Danish author of fiction, poetry, lyrics and drama. She made her debut with a collection of short stories, titled “Skifting” (“Changeling”) in 1996, for which she was awarded the prestigious Danish Debut Award. Weitze’s authorship has been characterized by her exploration of the liminal spaces between social realism and the otherworldly and her literary style compared by critics to that of authors like Karen Blixen, Kafka and Murakami.