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Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including her three brilliant volumes of memoir, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She married four times and struggled with alcohol and drug abuse throughout her adult life until her death by suicide in 1978.
The purity and dazzling insight of Ditlevsen's writing speaks for itself -- Lucy Scholes * The Telegraph * These collected short stories show off her astonishingly precise prose -- New Statesman * Ellen Peirson-Hagger * The depths of desire and despair are Ditlevsen's subjects and illuminating them is her talent * Monocle * Ditlevsen's writing is crystal clear and vividly, painfully raw * The Paris Review * A terrifying talent * The New York Times * Her writing is incredible, so focused and clear. Not a word that doesn't need to be there -- Tracey Thorn A beautifully written, resilient and relatable chronicle for the marginalized' (praise for Childhood, Youth, Dependency) -- Patti Smith Utterly, agonisingly compulsive . . . A masterpiece' (praise for Childhood, Youth, Dependency) * Guardian *
