Meet the finest (and darkest) poet you’ve never read … Her poems read, at their best, like illuminations, transfiguring her life again and again
Telegraph
About Tove Ditlevsen
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 the novels The Faces and Vilhelm's Room and her autobiographical masterpiece, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She married four times and died by suicide in 1976.