This author transmuted his love for Jenny Lind into a story about a nightingale, and he created a character who meets the robber girl as she travels through Lapland to extract a mirror fragment from Kai's heart.
In one work by this author, Karen attends a party instead of staying beside her sick foster mother; as a punishment, Karen's amputated feet continually dance in demonic red shoes. This author transmuted his love for Jenny Lind into a story about a nightingale, and he created a character who meets the robber girl as she travels through Lapland to extract a mirror fragment from Kai's heart. That character, Gerda, uses the Lord's Prayer to fend off the (*) Snow Queen. In another story by this author, a girl who feels like she is walking on knives will turn into sea foam unless she marries a human prince. For 10 points, identify this Danish author of fairytales like "The Little Mermaid."
In one work by this author, Karen attends a party instead of staying beside her sick foster mother; as a punishment, Karen's amputated feet continually dance in demonic red shoes.
Hans Christian Andersen