Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including her three brilliant volumes of memoir, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She married four times and struggled with alcohol and drug abuse throughout her adult life until her death by suicide in 1978.
Splendid short stories... the purity and dazzling insight of
Ditlevsen's writing speaks for itself
*The Telegraph*
An intense reading experience... so clear is Ditlevsen's eye that
it's impossible to tear yourself away from the fates of her
characters, however grim
*Guardian*
These short stories show off her astonishingly precise prose
*Ellen Peirson-Hagger*
A bracingly bleak selection of stories by the celebrated Danish
writer Tove Ditlevsen... These are perfectly judged pieces:
authentic, unforced and utterly lucid
*Sunday Times*
Ditlevsen's wonderful and devastatingly bleak short stories simmer
with melancholy and despair ... Her prose is clear and spare, pared
back to the essential task of describing the struggle for an unwon
freedom from domestic despair and unsatisfactory marriages
*Daily Mail*
The depths of desire and despair are Ditlevsen's subjects and
illuminating them is her talent
*Monocle*
Ditlevsen's writing is crystal clear and vividly, painfully raw
*The Paris Review*
A terrifying talent
*The New York Times*
Her writing is incredible, so focused and clear. Not a word that
doesn't need to be there
*Tracey Thorn*
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