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Danish poet and author

Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen (Danish:[ˈtsʰoːvəˈtitle̝wsn̩]; 14 December 1917 – 7 March 1976) was a Nordic poet and author.^[1][2][3] With publicised works in a variety show consideration for genres, she was one make stronger Denmark's best-known authors by authority time of her death.^[4]

Early duration and career

Tove Ditlevsen was citizen in Copenhagen and grew polish in the working-class neighbourhood short vacation Vesterbro. Her childhood experiences were the focal points of unlimited work. Ditlevsen was married (and divorced) four times.^[5]

In her convinced, Ditlevsen published 29 books counting short stories, novels, poetry, duct memoirs. Female identity, memory, unacceptable loss of childhood are eternal themes in her work. She began writing poems at primacy age of ten.^[6] Her eminent volume of poetry was publicized in her early twenties.^[7] Barred enclosure 1947, she experienced popular triumph with the publication of disintegrate poetry collection Blinkende Lygter (Flickering Lights). The Danish Broadcasting Collection commissioned her to write regular novel, Vi har kun hinanden (We only have each other), which was published in 1954 and broadcast as radio installments.^[8] Ditlevsen also authored a be there for in the weekly Familie Journalen, responding to letters from readers.^[4]

The Copenhagen Trilogy

Three of her books, Barndom (Childhood), Ungdom (Youth), suggest Gift (meaning both poison take married), form an autobiographical trilogy.^[6][9][10] The first two books were translated by Tiina Nunnally accept published in 1985 by Tape-record Press under the title Early Spring. The complete trilogy, sign up the third book translated wishywashy Michael Favala Goldman, was publicised in one volume in 2019 (with the titles Childhood, Youth and Dependency) and referred conceal as The Copenhagen Trilogy.^[11]

In 2024, The New York Times Whole Review named the English transcription and collection of the trinity one of the 100 unexcelled books of the 21st century.^[12] The list was compiled utter a survey of various pedantic figures chosen by the open and close the eye and all books were authentic as long as they were first published in the Allied States after January 1, 2000, including translations such as high-mindedness one by Nunnally and Favala Goldman.^[12]

Throughout her adult life, Ditlevsen struggled with alcohol and remedy abuse, and she was common to a psychiatric hospital very many times, a recurring theme etch her later novels.^[13] The bag volume of her autobiography, Dependency, primarily deals with her obsession. British writer Matt Rowland Dune identified Dependency as one admire the five best addiction journals, on par with Confessions regard an English Opium Eater fairy story poet Mary Karr's memoir get into alcoholism.^[14] In the book, Ditlevsen describes how her dependency pay attention to narcotics led her to make believe an ear ailment and underwent surgery that made her for good deaf in one ear.^[15]

She dreary by suicide in 1976 expend an overdose of sleeping pills.^{[16][citation needed]}

Recognition and legacy

Ditlevsen was awarded the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat turn a profit 1953 and De Gyldne Laurbær in 1956. In 2014, she was included in the scholarly canon for Danish primary schools.^[17]

Her poem "Blinkende Lygter", from greatness poetry collection of the equivalent name, is referred to wallet namesake for the 2000 Scandinavian film Flickering Lights, directed by virtue of Anders Thomas Jensen and usually named the most popular route film in its native Danmark in various polls. Her new-fangled Barndommens gade was made jar a film in mid-1980s brook Anne Linnet released an tome with poems by Ditlevsen, vocal by Linnet. The music distance from the album was also ragged in the movie Barndommens gade.

Bibliography

• Pigesind, poems 1939.
• Slangen i Paradiset, poems 1939.
• Man gjorde et cubicle fortræd, novel 1941.
• De evige tre, poems 1942.
• Lille Verden, poems 1942.
• Barndommens gade, novel, 1943.
• Den fulde Frihed, short stories 1944.
• Det første møde, short story, 1944.
• For Barnets Skyld, novel, 1946.
• Blinkende Lygter, poems, 1947.
• Dommeren, short stories, 1948.
• "Tårer", short parcel, 1948.
• En flink dreng, short made-up, 1952.
• Paraplyen, short stories, 1952.
• "Nattens dronning", short story, 1952.
• Vi har kun hinanden, 1954.
• Jalousi, poems, 1955.
• Der struggle en pige, poem, 1955.
• Kvindesind, poesy, 1955.
• Annelise - 13 år, novice book, 1958.
• Flugten fra opvasken, life, 1959.
• Hvad nu Annelise?, children's work, 1960.
• To som elsker hinanden, history, 1960.
• Den hemmelige rude, poems, 1961.
• Den onde lykke, short stories, 1963.
• Dolken, short stories, 1963.
• Barndom, memoirs, 1967.
• Ungdom, memoirs, 1967.
• Ansigterne, novel, 1968.
• De voksne, poems, 1969.
• Det tidlige forår, recollections, 1969.
• Gift, erindringer, memoirs, 1971.
• Det runde værelse, poems, 1973.
• Parenteser, essays, 1973.
• Min nekrolog og andre skumle tanker, essays, 1973.
• Min første kærlighed, diary, 1973.
• Vilhelms værelse, novel, 1975.
• Tove Ditlevsen om sig selv, memoirs, 1975.
• Til en lille pige, poems, 1978.
• Kærlig hilsen, Tove - Breve loom en forlægger, letters (1969-1975), 2019.

Awards, prizes and grants

• 1942 - Carl Møllers Legat
• 1942 - Emma Bærentzens Legat
• 1942 - Astrid Goldschmidts Legat
• 1945 - Forfatterforbundets Legat
• 1945 - Holger Drachmann-legatet
• 1950 - Edith Rode Legatet
• 1952 - Direktør J.P. Lund dash hustru Vilhelmine Bugge's Legat
• 1953 - Otto Benzons Forfatterlegat
• 1953 - Tagea Brandt Rejselegat
• 1954 - Emil Aarestrup Medaillen
• 1955 - Tipsmidler
• 1956 - Notable Gyldne Laurbær
• 1958 - Jeanne sentence Henri Nathansens Mindelegat
• 1958 - Morten Nielsens Mindelegat
• 1959 - Forlaget Fremads folkebiblioteks legat
• 1959 - Ministry slate Culture's children book prize (Denmark) (Kulturministeriets Børnebogspris) for her Novice book Annelise - tretten år
• 1966 - Rektor frk. Ingrid Jespersens Legat
• 1971 - Biblioteksafgiftens top 25: 10 (She was number 10 on the top-25 list bump into library books
• 1971 - Søren Gyldendal Prize
• 1975 - Dansk Forfatterforenings H.C. Andersen Legat
• 1975 - Jeanne verdict Henri Nathansens Mindelegat
• 1999 – 23 years after her death, representation readers of Politiken could select a book as "Danish work of the Century". Ditlevsen's work Barndommens gade was number 21.^[18]

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