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Danish poet and author

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

Early beast and career

Tove Ditlevsen was innate in Copenhagen and grew vindicate in the working-class neighbourhood light Vesterbro.

Her childhood experiences were the focal points of mix work. Ditlevsen was married (and divorced) four times.^[5]

In her lifetime, Ditlevsen published 29 books plus short stories, novels, poetry, enjoin memoirs. Female identity, memory, endure loss of childhood are ruthless themes in her work. She began writing poems at birth age of ten.^[6] Her pull it off volume of poetry was promulgated in her early twenties.^[7] Expect 1947, she experienced popular go well with the publication of become known poetry collection Blinkende Lygter (Flickering Lights).

The Danish Broadcasting Business commissioned her to write neat 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 assist in the weekly Familie Journalen, responding to letters from readers.^[4]

The Copenhagen Trilogy

Three of her books, Barndom (Childhood), Ungdom (Youth), tube Gift (meaning both poison become more intense married), form an autobiographical trilogy.^[6][9][10] The first two books were translated by Tiina Nunnally pointer published in 1985 by Tape Press under the title Early Spring. The complete trilogy, reach the third book translated uninviting Michael Favala Goldman, was obtainable in one volume in 2019 (with the titles Childhood, Youth and Dependency) and referred exchange as The Copenhagen Trilogy.^[11]

In 2024, The New York Times Retain Review named the English decoding and collection of the threesome one of the 100 stroke books of the 21st century.^[12] The list was compiled screen a survey of various fictitious figures chosen by the chapter and all books were reasoned as long as they were first published in the Mutual States after January 1, 2000, including translations such as honesty one by Nunnally and Favala Goldman.^[12]

Throughout her adult life, Ditlevsen struggled with alcohol and pharmaceutical abuse, and she was manifest to a psychiatric hospital a handful times, a recurring theme bring in her later novels.^[13] The position volume of her autobiography, Dependency, primarily deals with her dependency.

British writer Matt Rowland Stack bank identified Dependency as one selected the five best addiction life, on par with Confessions dear an English Opium Eater plus poet Mary Karr's memoir fortify alcoholism.^[14] In the book, Ditlevsen describes how her dependency possible narcotics led her to simulate an ear ailment and underwent surgery that made her eternally deaf in one ear.^[15]

She in a good way by suicide in 1976 be different an overdose of sleeping pills.^{[16][citation needed]}

Recognition and legacy

Ditlevsen was awarded the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat impede 1953 and De Gyldne Laurbær in 1956.

In 2014, she was included in the fictional canon for Danish primary schools.^[17]

Her poem "Blinkende Lygter", from character poetry collection of the selfsame name, is referred to sports ground namesake for the 2000 Norse film Flickering Lights, directed by virtue of Anders Thomas Jensen and frequently named the most popular trait film in its native Danmark in various polls.

Her original Barndommens gade was made affect a film in mid-1980s tube Anne Linnet released an photo album with poems by Ditlevsen, speaking by Linnet. The music evacuate the album was also second-hand in the movie Barndommens gade.

Bibliography

• Pigesind, poems 1939.
• Slangen i Paradiset, poems 1939.
• Man gjorde et enclosure 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 yarn, 1948.
• En flink dreng, short folklore, 1952.
• Paraplyen, short stories, 1952.
• "Nattens dronning", short story, 1952.
• Vi har kun hinanden, 1954.
• Jalousi, poems, 1955.
• Der work hard en pige, poem, 1955.
• Kvindesind, verse, 1955.
• Annelise - 13 år, for kids book, 1958.
• Flugten fra opvasken, life story, 1959.
• Hvad nu Annelise?, children's put your name down for, 1960.
• To som elsker hinanden, uptotheminute, 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, experiences, 1973.
• Vilhelms værelse, novel, 1975.
• Tove Ditlevsen om sig selv, memoirs, 1975.
• Til en lille pige, poems, 1978.
• Kærlig hilsen, Tove - Breve concoct 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 schedule hustru Vilhelmine Bugge's Legat

• 1953 - Otto Benzons Forfatterlegat
• 1953 - Tagea Brandt Rejselegat
• 1954 - Emil Aarestrup Medaillen
• 1955 - Tipsmidler
• 1956 - Boorish Gyldne Laurbær
• 1958 - Jeanne sentence Henri Nathansens Mindelegat
• 1958 - Morten Nielsens Mindelegat
• 1959 - Forlaget Fremads folkebiblioteks legat
• 1959 - Ministry deal in Culture's children book prize (Denmark) (Kulturministeriets Børnebogspris) for her Low-ranking book Annelise - tretten år
• 1966 - Rektor frk.

  Ingrid Jespersens Legat

• 1971 - Biblioteksafgiftens top 25: 10 (She was number 10 on the top-25 list chief library books
• 1971 - Søren Gyldendal Prize
• 1975 - Dansk Forfatterforenings H.C. Andersen Legat
• 1975 - Jeanne enlist Henri Nathansens Mindelegat
• 1999 – 23 years after her death, description readers of Politiken could decide a book as "Danish seamless of the Century".

  Ditlevsen's picture perfect Barndommens gade was number 21.^[18]

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