While Tove Ditlevsen is now famous around the world as an extraordinary prose writer, in Denmark she has also long been celebrated as a poet. She published her first collection in her early twenties, and continued writing and publishing poetry until the end of her life. This new selection offers English readers a chance to explore her brilliant, surprising verse across nearly four decades of writing.In this playful, mournful, witty collection, little girls stand tip-toe inside adult bodies, achievements in literature and lethargy are unflinchingly listed, and lovers come and go like the seasons. Gorgeously translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith, with an introduction by Olga Ravn, There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die cements Ditlevsen as one of the twentieth century's most creative writers.

'Then she would feel exposed and cry, as if her life and happiness were ruined for all time, even though she could still hide it from those she only came in contact with by chance or infrequently.'Longing shimmers from these spare but profoundly moving short stories by one of Denmark's most fearless and sharp-eyed authors. In these tales of inarticulate desire and repression, Ditlevsen pulls to the surface our deepest interiorities in devastating, exacting prose.

V Dánsku již kultovní trilogie, původně vydaná ve třech útlých knihách, zavádí čtenáře do Kodaně mezi třicátými a sedmdesátými lety dvacátého století. Tove Ditlevsenová vypráví svůj životní příběh: pocházela z prostého dělnického prostředí a snažila se z něho co nejdříve uniknout do světa literatury. Kniha zobrazuje složitá ženská přátelství, manželství bez citu a porozumění, mateřství a nechtěná otěhotnění, milostná vzplanutí, rozpolcení mezi dvěma muži, závislost na alkoholu a drogách, ale především závislost na psaní.  Autorka se v pouhých sedmnácti letech stala slavnou básnířkou, ovšem věnovala se i psaní novel, románů, povídek, esejů a především memoárů. Svůj život ukončila roku 1976 sebevraždou. Ačkoliv ji soudobá kritika kvůli dělnickému původu i prostému faktu, že je žena, nebrala příliš vážně, nakonec se vypracovala v jeden z nejnaléhavějších hlasů dánské literatury dvacátého století a se stejnou intenzitou oslovuje čtenáře po celém světě i dnes.

''Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece'' Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one woman''s journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, ambition and the terrible lure of addiction, from one of Denmark''s most celebrated twentieth-century writers.''Sharp, tough and tender ... wrenching sadness and pitch-black comedy ... Ditlevsen can pivot from hilarity to heartbreak in a trice'' Boyd Tonkin Spectator''Astonishing, honest, entirely revealing and, in the end, devastating. Ditlevsen''s trilogy is remarkable not only for its honesty and lyricism; these are books that journey deep into the darkest reaches of human experience and return, fatally wounded, but still eloquent'' Observer''The best books I have read this year. These volumes slip in like a stiletto and do their work once inside. Thrilling'' New Statesman

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