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"A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year"

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Roger Moore frames the assignment with the breezy understatement of someone who knows exactly how public culture works: prestige first, homework second. “A lot of my reading” sounds like modest self-improvement, but it’s also a soft PR move, a way of signaling he’ll treat the role with respect while keeping the tone light. The key phrase is “have been appointed an ambassador” - passive voice that politely advertises institutional endorsement without looking like he’s bragging. Moore isn’t selling Andersen so much as selling the legitimacy of the celebration, using celebrity as cultural glue.

The subtext is how modern canon-building gets maintained: not just by scholars and publishers, but by famous faces who can turn an anniversary into a media event. A bicentenary is essentially a marketing milestone for heritage, and an “ambassador” is a bridge between the literary past and a present that needs a recognizable narrator. Moore’s persona matters here. As an actor associated with suave charm and global visibility, he’s a safe conduit for a writer whose stories are both beloved and, in their original form, sharper and stranger than the sanitized versions many people remember.

There’s a quiet wink in the notion of “reading over the next few months.” It suggests dutiful preparation, yet it also hints at performance: he’s about to play the part of the cultured envoy. Even the fairy tale author becomes, in this context, a stage.

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Moore, Roger. (2026, January 16). A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-my-reading-over-the-next-few-months-will-118827/

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Moore, Roger. "A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-my-reading-over-the-next-few-months-will-118827/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-lot-of-my-reading-over-the-next-few-months-will-118827/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Roger Moore (born October 14, 1927) is a Actor from England.

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