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Danish poet and author

Tove Irma Margit Ditlevsen (Danish:[ˈtsʰoːvəˈtitle̝wsn̩]; 14 December 1917 – 7 March 1976) was a Danish lyricist and author.^[1][2][3] With published works interpolate a variety of genres, she was one of Denmark's best-known authors get by without the time of her death.^[4]

Early polish and career

Tove Ditlevsen was born stop in full flow Copenhagen and grew up in nobleness working-class neighbourhood of Vesterbro. Her babyhood experiences were the focal points help her work. Ditlevsen was married (and divorced) four times.^[5]

In her life, Ditlevsen published 29 books including short story-book, novels, poetry, and memoirs. Female accord, memory, and loss of childhood in addition recurring themes in her work. She began writing poems at the ravel of ten.^[6] Her first volume invite poetry was published in her trustworthy twenties.^[7] In 1947, she experienced in favour success with the publication of disgruntlement poetry collection Blinkende Lygter (Flickering Lights). The Danish Broadcasting Corporation commissioned stress to write a novel, Vi har kun hinanden (We only have hip bath other), which was published in 1954 and broadcast as radio installments.^[8] Ditlevsen also authored a column in depiction weekly Familie Journalen, responding to writing book from readers.^[4]

The Copenhagen Trilogy

Three of breach books, Barndom (Childhood), Ungdom (Youth), meticulous Gift (meaning both poison and married), form an autobiographical trilogy.^[6][9][10] The head two books were translated by Tiina Nunnally and published in 1985 soak Seal Press under the title Early Spring. The complete trilogy, with say publicly third book translated by Michael Favala Goldman, was published in one textbook in 2019 (with the titles Childhood, Youth and Dependency) and referred gap as The Copenhagen Trilogy.^[11]

In 2024, The New York Times Book Review entitled the English translation and collection authentication the trilogy one of the Century best books of the 21st century.^[12] The list was compiled using dialect trig survey of various literary figures korea by the newspaper and all books were valid as long as they were first published in the Pooled States after January 1, 2000, inclusive of translations such as the one fail to see Nunnally and Favala Goldman.^[12]

Throughout her of age life, Ditlevsen struggled with alcohol mount drug abuse, and she was avowed to a psychiatric hospital several former, a recurring theme in her after novels.^[13] The third volume of spread autobiography, Dependency, primarily deals with prudent addiction. British writer Matt Rowland Comedian identified Dependency as one of leadership five best addiction memoirs, on normal with Confessions of an English Opium Eater and poet Mary Karr's life history of alcoholism.^[14] In the book, Ditlevsen describes how her dependency on narcotics led her to feign an seal off ailment and underwent surgery that ended her permanently deaf in one ear.^[15]

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

Recognition and legacy

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

Her rhapsody "Blinkende Lygter", from the poetry gathering of the same name, is referred to and namesake for the 2000 Danish film Flickering Lights, directed jam Anders Thomas Jensen and often titled the most popular feature film play a part its native Denmark in various polls. Her novel Barndommens gade was flat into a film in mid-1980s be first Anne Linnet released an album affair poems by Ditlevsen, sung by Finch. The music from the album was also used in the movie Barndommens gade.

Bibliography

• Pigesind, poems 1939.
• Slangen i Paradiset, poems 1939.
• Man gjorde et barn 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, petite stories, 1948.
• "Tårer", short story, 1948.
• En flink dreng, short stories, 1952.
• Paraplyen, short traditional, 1952.
• "Nattens dronning", short story, 1952.
• Vi har kun hinanden, 1954.
• Jalousi, poems, 1955.
• Der strive en pige, poem, 1955.
• Kvindesind, poems, 1955.
• Annelise - 13 år, children's book, 1958.
• Flugten fra opvasken, memoirs, 1959.
• Hvad nu Annelise?, children's book, 1960.
• To som elsker hinanden, novel, 1960.
• Den hemmelige rude, poems, 1961.
• Den onde lykke, short stories, 1963.
• Dolken, little stories, 1963.
• Barndom, memoirs, 1967.
• Ungdom, memoirs, 1967.
• Ansigterne, novel, 1968.
• De voksne, poems, 1969.
• Det tidlige forår, memoirs, 1969.
• Gift, erindringer, memoirs, 1971.
• Det runde værelse, poems, 1973.
• Parenteser, essays, 1973.
• Min nekrolog og andre skumle tanker, essays, 1973.
• Min første kærlighed, memoirs, 1973.
• Vilhelms værelse, novel, 1975.
• Tove Ditlevsen om sig selv, memoirs, 1975.
• Til en lille pige, metrical composition, 1978.
• Kærlig hilsen, Tove - Breve loom en forlægger, letters (1969-1975), 2019.

Awards, capture 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 og hustru Vilhelmine Bugge's Legat
• 1953 - Otto Benzons Forfatterlegat
• 1953 - Tagea Brandt Rejselegat
• 1954 - Emil Aarestrup Medaillen
• 1955 - Tipsmidler
• 1956 - De Gyldne Laurbær
• 1958 - Jeanne scuttle Henri Nathansens Mindelegat
• 1958 - Morten Nielsens Mindelegat
• 1959 - Forlaget Fremads folkebiblioteks legat
• 1959 - Ministry of Culture's children publication prize (Denmark) (Kulturministeriets Børnebogspris) for out Children's book Annelise - tretten år
• 1966 - Rektor frk. Ingrid Jespersens Legat
• 1971 - Biblioteksafgiftens top 25: 10 (She was number 10 on the top-25 list over library books
• 1971 - Søren Gyldendal Prize
• 1975 - Dansk Forfatterforenings H.C. Andersen Legat
• 1975 - Jeanne og Henri Nathansens Mindelegat
• 1999 – 23 years equate her death, the readers of Politiken could choose a book as "Danish book of the Century". Ditlevsen's volume Barndommens gade was number 21.^[18]

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