Danish novelist and dramatist, a social critic who wrote in a satirical, humorous vein.

A dentist by profession, he began in his thirties to write stories about people who can't conform to society's rules for one reason or another.

Panduro produced a number of scripts for radio, television, and film, becoming one of the most successful Scandinavian dramatists of the 1970s with such works as Farvel, Thomas (1968; “Goodbye, Thomas”) and I Adams verden (1973; “In Adam’s World”).