Tove Ditlevsen

The Copenhagen Trilogy

1 - Childhood (Sep-2019)
2 - Youth (Sep-2019)
3 - Dependency (Sep-2019)

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  Faces
  

  • Jan-1991
  • / General Fiction
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  From Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, comes The Faces, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience. Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children's book writer and marr...

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  Childhood
  

  • Sep-2019
  • / Literary
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  The Copenhagen Trilogy - 1
  

  The celebrated Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen begins the Copenhagen Trilogy ("A masterpiece" -- The Guardian) with Childhood, her coming-of-age memoir about pursuing a life and a passion beyond the confines of her upbringing -- and into the difficult ye...

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  Dependency
  

  • Sep-2019
  • / Literary
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  The Copenhagen Trilogy - 3
  

  The final volume in the renowned Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen’s autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy ("A masterpiece" -- The Guardian). Following Childhood and Youth, Dependency is the searing portrait of a woman’s journey through love, friendship,...

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  Youth
  

  • Sep-2019
  • / Literary
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  The Copenhagen Trilogy - 2
  

  The acclaimed Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen’s autobiographical Copenhagen Trilogy ("A masterpiece" -- The Guardian) continues with Youth. Following Childhood, this second volume finds the young author consumed in trials by fire that only fuel her rel...

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  The Trouble with Happiness
  

  • Apr-2022
  • / Literary
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  The Trouble with Happiness is a powerful new collection of short stories by Tove Ditlevsen, "a terrifying talent" (Parul Sehgal, New York Times). A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's belo...

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  Vilhelm's Room
  

  • May-2026
  • / Literary
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  A searing final novel about the collapse of a marriage and its aftermath, by the author of the modern classic Copenhagen Trilogy. I want to write a book about Vilhelm’s room and the events which took place in it, or arose from it; those that led ...

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