In 1955 she had her first poems published under the pseudonym Cecil Skar. In 1961 she debuted with the collection of novellas Øjet (The Eye), all treating the condition of human existence estranged from nature. The dystopian critique of civilization continued in Tilstanden Harley (The condition Harley) (1965) and Pap (Cardboard) (1967).[4]
The English-language edition of Leoparden (1970), translated by Gunnar Poulsen and published by
Atheneum Press in 1976, won the annual
Batchelder Award from the
American Library Association as the "children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States".[8]
Works
1955 Luseblomster (poem)
1956 Fygende heste (poem)
1956 Generationer (poem)
1959 Anadyomene (poem)
1961 Øjet (novel)
1964 Latter (hearing game)
1964 Samlede digte (Collected ed.)
1965 Tilstanden Harley (novel)
1967 Pap (radioplay)
1967 Silas og den sorte hoppe (Young adult)
1968 I vædderens tegn (poem)
1969 Silas og Ben-Godik (Young adult)
1969 Timmerlis (Young adult)
1970 Leoparden (The Leopard, Young adult)
1971 Dimma Gole (Young adult)
1971 Fortællinger omkring Tavs
1971 Kvinden som gik bort over vandet (radioplay)
1972 Salthandlerskens hus
1972 Silas fanger et firspand (Young adult)
1972 Skyld (Acting)
1974 En vrangmaske i Vorherres strikketøj
1975 Barnet i sivkurven
1975 Da jorden forsvandt
1975 Far, mor og børn (acting)
1975 Jerutte fra Ræverød (Young adult)
1975 Jerutte redder Tom og Tinne (Young adult)
1976 Jerutte og bjørnen fra Ræverød (Young adult)
1976 Silas stifter familie (Young adult)
1977 Cecil Bødker – et udvalg (udvalg)
1977 Den udvalgte
1977 Jerutte besøger Hundejens (Young adult)
1977 Silas på Sebastianbjerget (Young adult)
1978 Silas og Hestekragen mødes igen (Young adult)
1979 Silas møder Matti (Young adult)
1980 Evas ekko
1980 Flugten fra Farao
1981 Tænk på Jolande(Beautiful story telling about the growth of the quiet, shy girl Emilie when she meets her inner self in the strong, adventures girl Jolande)