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Tove Ditlevsen

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Tove Ditlevsen


Born
in København, Denmark
December 12, 1917

Died
March 07, 1976

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

“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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