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...Hans Christian Andersen’s first publication

Hans Christian Andersen had his first book published when he was only 17 years old. Youthful Attemps (Ungdoms-Forsøg) was published in 1822 under the pseudonym Villiam Christian Walter. The poet took the name 'Villiam' after William Shakespeare, 'Christian' after himself and 'Walter' after Walter Scott. In the autobiography The Fairy Tale of My Life (Mit Livs Eventyr) Hans Christian Andersen writes about Youthful Attemps:  
"...was published unchanged with a pen-name, I had made one for myself, which at first glance seems to show enormous vanity, and yet was not so, but far more the love a child can possess and consequently name its doll after the person it is most fond of. I loved William Shakespeare and Walter Scott, and I naturally also loved myself, so I took my name, Christian, and that gave me my pseudonym William Christian Walter." 

...Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales

are translated into languages as Nepalese, Turcoman, and Urdu.