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Tove Ditlevsen

Born

in København, Denmark

December 12, 1917

Died

March 07, 1976

Genre

Poetry, Literature & Fiction

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Tove Ditlevsen var en dansk forfatter, som hentede inspiration i sit eget liv som kvinde. I sin digtning og som yndet brevkasseredaktør i Familie Journalen udfoldede hun en dyb psykologisk indsigt i moderne kvinders splittede liv. Hendes evne til at udtrykke sammensatte følelser i et enkelt og smukt sprog fik betydning for flere generationer af læsere.

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	The Copenhagen Trilogy (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1-3) by Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally (Translator), Michael Favala Goldman (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.36 avg rating — 27,541 ratings — published 1971 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 19,738 ratings — published 1967 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gift (The Copenhagen Trilogy #3) by Tove Ditlevsen, Dy Plambeck (Foreword) 4.41 avg rating — 15,987 ratings — published 1971 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Youth (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #2) by Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally (Translator) 4.21 avg rating — 13,038 ratings — published 1967 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally (translator) 3.90 avg rating — 7,051 ratings — published 1968 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Barndommens gade 4.05 avg rating — 3,061 ratings — published 1943 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories by Tove Ditlevsen, Michael Favala Goldman (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.85 avg rating — 2,740 ratings — published 2022 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vilhelm's Room by Tove Ditlevsen, Sophia Hersi Smith (Translator), Jennifer Russell (Translator) 3.80 avg rating — 2,698 ratings — published 1975 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems by Tove Ditlevsen, Olga Ravn (editor), Jennifer Russell (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 2,120 ratings — published 2017 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Barndom og ungdom by Tove Ditlevsen, Finn B. Larsen (Translator) 4.25 avg rating — 1,348 ratings — published 1969 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Copenhagen Trilogy (3 books)
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Dy Plambeck (Foreword)

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Quotes by Tove Ditlevsen (?)

“Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood

tags: childhood

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“It bothers me a lot that I don’t seem to own any real feelings anymore, but always have to pretend that I do by copying other people’s reactions. It’s as if I’m only moved by things that come to me indirectly. I can cry when I see a picture in the newspaper of an unfortunate family that’s been evicted, but when I see the same ordinary sight in reality, it doesn’t touch me. I’m moved by poetry and lyrical prose, now as always – but the things that are described leave me completely cold. I don’t think very much of reality.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, Childhood

tags: feelings, reactions

30 likes

“Meanwhile I am only twenty years old, and the days descend on me un-noticeably like dust, each one just like the rest.”
― Tove Ditlevsen, The Copenhagen Trilogy

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March 2024 Short Story/Novella Poll

The Beauties by Anton Chekhov

59 votes, 26.6%

The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges

40 votes, 18.0%

Why I Live at the P.O. and Other Stories title story by Eudora Welty

31 votes, 14.0%

Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen

26 votes, 11.7%

Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston

23 votes, 10.4%

Tower of Babylon in Stories of Your Life and Others Ted Chiang

23 votes, 10.4%

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat

20 votes, 9.0%

222 total votes

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