222:, while Vebæk returned to Denmark and was unable to reunite with her until the conflict ended. On 4 August 1945, the couple were married in Qaqortoq and almost immediately moved to Denmark, where their daughters, Bolette (1946) and Astrid (1947) were born. In the early years of their marriage, while raising their children, Vebæk accompanied her husband on numerous archaeological expeditions to Greenland, including his explorations in 1946, 1948 to 1951, 1954, 1958 and 1962. She served as his
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Greenlandic women who had married Danish men. These insights influenced her later writings focused on women, such as the suppression that their gender caused and conflicts between Danish and Greenlandic culture. In 1981, she published the first novel written by a
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of her class, surpassing all the boys in their parallel courses. Because of her marks, the
Committee for Greenlandic Education, a private organization which promoted further studies in Denmark to enable girls to learn various trades, offered Kleist a scholarship to continue her education. In
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to take a test, but upon passing the examination was admitted to study at
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her husband from 1946 to 1962. She began publishing stories, legends and folktales in the 1950s, both through print media and on radio. In 1981, after having participated in a survey on the
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