The Copenhagen Trilogy was reviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air two days ago.
NPR critic-at-large, John Powers, said this of the book: “We’re living in a golden age for women’s writing. The wheels of literary justice are finally giving due process to great women writers whose work has been forgotten, ignored or insufficiently appreciated.
The latest revelation is Tove Ditlevsen, a Danish poet and fiction writer who I’d never even heard of until a few months ago. In her native Denmark, Ditlevsen, who killed herself in 1976, is a renowned author whose popularity survived the condescension of the male establishment…
Ditlevsen’s brilliance is evident when you read her confessional memoir, The Copenhagen Trilogy, which is newly available in a crisp translation by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman. Told in a sneakily plain, highly addictive voice, it’s the portrait of the artist as a young woman who wrote as hard as she lived.”
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