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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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Average rating: 4.2 · 97,560 ratings · 10,238 reviews · 108 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Copenhagen Trilogy (The Copenhagen Trilogy #1-3) by Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally (Translator), Michael Favala Goldman (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.36 avg rating — 26,367 ratings — published 1971 — 44 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) by Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally (Translator), Michael Favala Goldman (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.11 avg rating — 19,027 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 — 15,470 ratings — published 1971 — 49 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 — 12,578 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 — 6,703 ratings — published 1968 — 42 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 — 2,968 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 — 2,651 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
	Vilhelms værelse 3.83 avg rating — 2,357 ratings — published 1975 — 28 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 (Goodreads Author) (translator) 4.21 avg rating — 1,952 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Barndom og ungdom by Tove Ditlevsen, Finn B. Larsen (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 1,326 ratings — published 1969 — 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

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Series by Tove Ditlevsen

The Copenhagen Trilogy (3 books)
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Tove Ditlevsen,

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

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“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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Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001) 351 pages

72 votes, 36.4%

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
(1935) 400 pages

43 votes, 21.7%

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley (1953) 326 pages

23 votes, 11.6%

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz (1956) 501 pages

20 votes, 10.1%

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
(1949) 318 pages

15 votes, 7.6%

Childhood / Youth / Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen (1967) 370 pages

15 votes, 7.6%

Alberta and Jacob by Cora Sandel (1926) 247 pages.

10 votes, 5.1%

198 total votes

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