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Early Spring, Tove Ditlevsen, translated from Danish by Tiina Nunnally, 1967, Denmark, AUTOBIOGRAPHY

"For three years, Tove Ditlevsen, one of Denmark's favorite writers, was unable to write. Then six words appeared to her: "In the morning there was hope." These became the first words of her memoir, Early Spring, fitting for a book that spares the reader none of the squalid details of Tove Ditlevsen's first eighteen years, yet is filled with beauty and aspirations..."

(E.B., p. 124)