Author : Simon Ditlevsen

Simon Ditlevsen is an avid environmentalist, aid worker, and international marathoner. He wrote the manuscript for the 1991 film It’s Best Aloft, a documentary about life on board the tall ship Danmark. He has also written several articles on swimming technique and coaching. Among his literary influences are novelists Karen Blixen and Astrid Lindgren, and poet Søren Ulrich Thomsen. “When a Man’s Nobler Parts…” is fiction based on anecdotes and experiences he had during a year spent in a rural village in northern Tanzania.