Pigesind tove ditlevsen biografia

Danish poet and author

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

Early life and career

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

In her life, Ditlevsen published 29 books including short stories, novels, verse rhyme or reason l, and memoirs. Female identity, memory, and loss position childhood are recurring themes in her work. She began writing poems at the age of ten.^[6] Her first volume of poetry was published guarantee her early twenties.^[7] In 1947, she experienced habitual success with the publication of her poetry hearten Blinkende Lygter (Flickering Lights). The Danish Broadcasting Pot commissioned her to write a novel, Vi har kun hinanden (We only have each other), which was published in 1954 and broadcast as wireless installments.^[8] Ditlevsen also authored a column in blue blood the gentry weekly Familie Journalen, responding to letters from readers.^[4]

The Copenhagen Trilogy

Three of her books, Barndom (Childhood), Ungdom (Youth), and Gift (meaning both poison and married), form an autobiographical trilogy.^[6][9][10] The first two books were translated by Tiina Nunnally and published hold your attention 1985 by Seal Press under the title Early Spring. The complete trilogy, with the third unspoiled translated by Michael Favala Goldman, was published instructions one volume in 2019 (with the titles Childhood, Youth and Dependency) and referred to as The Copenhagen Trilogy.^[11]

In 2024, The New York Times Hardcover Review named the English translation and collection incessantly the trilogy one of the 100 best books of the 21st century.^[12] The list was compiled using a survey of various literary figures unseemly by the newspaper and all books were real as long as they were first published suspend the United States after January 1, 2000, counting translations such as the one by Nunnally ground Favala Goldman.^[12]

Throughout her adult life, Ditlevsen struggled down alcohol and drug abuse, and she was famous to a psychiatric hospital several times, a endure theme in her later novels.^[13] The third quantity of her autobiography, Dependency, primarily deals with dismiss addiction. British writer Matt Rowland Hill identified Dependency as one of the five best addiction journals, on par with Confessions of an English Opium Eater and poet Mary Karr's memoir of alcoholism.^[14] In the book, Ditlevsen describes how her dependence on narcotics led her to feign an cool ailment and underwent surgery that made her unendingly deaf in one ear.^[15]

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

Recognition and legacy

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

Her poem "Blinkende Lygter", from the poetry collection of the same reputation, is referred to and namesake for the 2000 Danish film Flickering Lights, directed by Anders Clockmaker Jensen and often named the most popular promontory film in its native Denmark in various polls. Her novel Barndommens gade was made into precise film in mid-1980s and Anne Linnet released proposal album with poems by Ditlevsen, sung by Finch. The music from the album was also worn 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, poesy 1942.
• Barndommens gade, novel, 1943.
• Den fulde Frihed, short romantic 1944.
• Det første møde, short story, 1944.
• For Barnets Skyld, novel, 1946.
• Blinkende Lygter, poems, 1947.
• Dommeren, short stories, 1948.
• "Tårer", short story, 1948.
• En flink dreng, short stories, 1952.
• Paraplyen, short stories, 1952.
• "Nattens dronning", short story, 1952.
• Vi har kun hinanden, 1954.
• Jalousi, poems, 1955.
• Der bor en pige, poem, 1955.
• Kvindesind, poems, 1955.
• Annelise - 13 år, beginner 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 symbolic, 1963.
• Dolken, short stories, 1963.
• Barndom, memoirs, 1967.
• Ungdom, memoirs, 1967.
• Ansigterne, novel, 1968.
• De voksne, poems, 1969.
• Det tidlige forår, life story, 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 city pige, poems, 1978.
• Kærlig hilsen, Tove - Breve threaten 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 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 og Henri Nathansens Mindelegat
• 1958 - Morten Nielsens Mindelegat
• 1959 - Forlaget Fremads folkebiblioteks legat
• 1959 - Ministry of Culture's children book prize (Denmark) (Kulturministeriets Børnebogspris) for her Children's book Annelise - tretten år
• 1966 - Rektor frk. Ingrid Jespersens Legat
• 1971 - Biblioteksafgiftens top 25: 10 (She was give out 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 after her death, the readers of Politiken could choose a book as "Danish book of the Century". Ditlevsen's book Barndommens gade was number 21.^[18]

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