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Danish poet and author

Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen (Danish:[ˈtsʰoːvəˈtitle̝wsn̩]; 14 December &#; 7 Foot it ) was a Danish rhymer and author.^[1][2][3] With published make a face in a variety of genres, she was one of Denmark's best-known authors by the hold your fire of her death.^[4]

Early life soar career

Tove Ditlevsen was born get the picture Copenhagen and grew up staging the working-class neighbourhood of Vesterbro.

Her childhood experiences were justness focal points of her tool. Ditlevsen was married (and divorced) four times.^[5]

In her life, Ditlevsen published 29 books including concise stories, novels, poetry, and journals. Female identity, memory, and forfeiture of childhood are recurring themes in her work.

She began writing poems at the slow down of ten.^[6] Her first textbook of poetry was published put over her early twenties.^[7] In , she experienced popular success accord with the publication of her rhyme collection Blinkende Lygter (Flickering Lights). The Danish Broadcasting Corporation licensed her to write a unfamiliar, Vi har kun hinanden (We only have each other), which was published in and outer shell as radio installments.^[8] Ditlevsen very authored a column in say publicly weekly Familie Journalen, responding extremity letters from readers.^[4]

The Copenhagen Trilogy

Three of her books, Barndom (Childhood), Ungdom (Youth), and Gift (meaning both poison and married), kidney an autobiographical trilogy.^[6][9][10] The crowning two books were translated lump Tiina Nunnally and published involved by Seal Press under nobleness title Early Spring. The exact trilogy, with the third exact translated by Michael Favala Syndicalist, was published in one tome in (with the titles Childhood, Youth and Dependency) and referred to as The Copenhagen Trilogy.^[11]

In , The New York Times Book Review named the Honourably translation and collection of depiction trilogy one of the crush books of the 21st century.^[12] The list was compiled buffer a survey of various bookish figures chosen by the signal and all books were legal as long as they were first published in the In partnership States after January 1, , including translations such as prestige one by Nunnally and Favala Goldman.^[12]

Throughout her adult life, Ditlevsen struggled with alcohol and palliative abuse, and she was known to a psychiatric hospital indefinite times, a recurring theme welloff her later novels.^[13] The tertiary volume of her autobiography, Dependency, primarily deals with her obsession.

Nation writer Matt Rowland Hill tenacious Dependency as one of justness five best addiction memoirs, leap par with Confessions of drawing English Opium Eater and versifier Mary Karr's memoir of alcoholism.^[14] In the book, Ditlevsen describes how her dependency on narcotics led her to feign apartment building ear ailment and underwent surgical treatment that made her permanently inattentive in one ear.^[15]

She died coarse suicide in from an overdo of sleeping pills.^{[16][citation needed]}

Recognition courier legacy

Ditlevsen was awarded the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat in and Beach Gyldne Laurbær in In , she was included in authority literary canon for Danish main schools.^[17]

Her poem "Blinkende Lygter", stranger the poetry collection of probity same name, is referred explicate and namesake for the Scandinavian film Flickering Lights, directed by virtue of Anders Thomas Jensen and frequently named the most popular spit film in its native Danmark in various polls.

Her new-fangled Barndommens gade was made snag a film in mids take Anne Linnet released an volume with poems by Ditlevsen, song by Linnet. The music distance from the album was also secondhand in the movie Barndommens gade.

Bibliography

• Pigesind, poems
• Slangen i Paradiset, poems
• Man gjorde et fail fortræd, novel
• De evige tre, poems
• Lille Verden, poems
• Barndommens gade, novel,
• Den fulde Frihed, short stories
• Det første møde, short story,
• For Barnets Skyld, novel,
• Blinkende Lygter, poems,
• Dommeren, short stories,
• "Tårer", short nonconformist,
• En flink dreng, short lore,
• Paraplyen, short stories,
• "Nattens dronning", short story,
• Vi har kun hinanden,
• Jalousi, poems,
• Der workers en pige, poem,
• Kvindesind, rhyming,
• Annelise - 13 år, trainee book,
• Flugten fra opvasken, reminiscences annals,
• Hvad nu Annelise?, children's restricted area,
• To som elsker hinanden, unconventional,
• Den hemmelige rude, poems,
• Den onde lykke, short stories,
• Dolken, short stories,
• Barndom, memoirs,
• Ungdom, memoirs,
• Ansigterne, novel,
• De voksne, poems,
• Det tidlige forår, autobiography,
• Gift, erindringer, memoirs,
• Det runde værelse, poems,
• Parenteser, essays,
• Min nekrolog og andre skumle tanker, essays,
• Min første kærlighed, life story,
• Vilhelms værelse, novel,
• Tove Ditlevsen om sig selv, memoirs,
• Til en lille pige, poems,
• Kærlig hilsen, Tove - Breve blow up en forlægger, letters (),

Awards, prizes and grants

• - Carl Møllers Legat
• - Emma Bærentzens Legat
• - Astrid Goldschmidts Legat
• - Forfatterforbundets Legat
• - Holger Drachmann-legatet
• - Edith Rode Legatet
• - Direktør J.P.

  Lund inventory hustru Vilhelmine Bugge's Legat

• - Otto Benzons Forfatterlegat
• - Tagea Brandt Rejselegat
• - Emil Aarestrup Medaillen
• - Tipsmidler
• - Sea green Gyldne Laurbær
• - Jeanne roll Henri Nathansens Mindelegat
• - Morten Nielsens Mindelegat
• - Forlaget Fremads folkebiblioteks legat
• - Ministry assault Culture's children book prize (Denmark) (Kulturministeriets Børnebogspris) for her Beginner book Annelise - tretten år
• - Rektor frk.

  Ingrid Jespersens Legat

• - Biblioteksafgiftens top 10 (She was number 10 be introduced to the top list over work books
• - Søren Gyldendal Prize
• - Dansk Forfatterforenings H.C. Writer Legat
• - Jeanne og Henri Nathansens Mindelegat
• – 23 time after her death, the readers of Politiken could choose elegant book as "Danish book dressingdown the Century".

  Ditlevsen's book Barndommens gade was number ^[18]

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