Tove, Irma Margit,191 – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:03:53 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Tove, Irma Margit,191 – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 The umbrella https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/the-umbrella/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=47714 90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

‘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.

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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.

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