Tove Ditlevsen
Born
in København, Denmark
December 12, 1917
Died
March 07, 1976
Genre
Childhood / Youth / Dependency (The Copenhagen Trilogy, #1-3)
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30 editions
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1967
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Childhood (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1)
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36 editions
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1967
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Gift
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45 editions
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1971
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Youth
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12 editions
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1967
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The Faces
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35 editions
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1968
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Barndommens gade
22 editions
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1943
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The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
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12 editions
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2022
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Barndom og ungdom
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25 editions
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1969
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Der bor en ung pige i mig, som ikke vil dø
6 editions
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2017
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Man gjorde et barn fortræd
15 editions
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1941
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“Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can’t get out of it on your own.”
― Childhood
― Childhood
“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.”
― Childhood
― Childhood
“Med ingen kan man dele sine inderste tanker. Det vigtigste i verden er man alene med.”
― De voksne
― De voksne
Polls
May 2021 Short Story/Novella Poll
The Altar of the Dead by Henry James, 48 pages, 1895
The 13 Clocks by James Thurber, 128 or less, 1950
The Duel: By Joseph Conrad - Illustrated by Joseph Conrad, 100 pages, 1908
Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen, 99 pages, 1967
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