Inger Christensen (1935–2009)
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Writer Inger Christensen was born in Vejle, Denmark on January 16, 1935. She enrolled in medical school, but had to withdraw due to financial reasons. She received a teaching degree with a concentration in German and mathematics from the Aarhus College of Education. She was a teacher for a few näytä lisää years before becoming a full-time writer. She wrote poems, essays, short stories, children's books, and plays. Her works include It, Alphabet, Butterfly Valley: A Requiem, The Painted Room, and Azorno. She received numerous awards throughout her career including the 1994 Nordic Authors' Prize. She died on January 2, 2009 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
Image credit: Inger Christensen - Modernista
Tekijän teokset
The meaning of metafiction : a critical study of selected novels by Sterne, Nabokov, Barth and Beckett (1981) 1 kappale
Græs 1 kappale
Chancen - Tidsskrift for litteratur 1 kappale
Associated Works
Die Frage nach Milton Sills - Wirkliche und erfundene Gespräche mit Hugo Claus, Cees Nooteboom, Jorge Luis Borges… (2009) — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
15è Festival internacional de poesia de Barcelona 1999 — Tekijä — 2 kappaletta
Udsagn : En mosaik om matematik : Udgivet i anledning af Matematiklærerforeningens 60-års jubilæum (1992) — Tekijä, eräät painokset — 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Kanoninen nimi
- Christensen, Inger
- Syntymäaika
- 1935-01-16
- Kuolinaika
- 2009-01-02
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- Denmark
- Syntymäpaikka
- Vejle, Denmark
- Kuolinpaikka
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Asuinpaikat
- Vejle, Denmark (birth)
København, Denmark
Århus, Denmark - Suhteet
- Borum, Poul (husband)
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1994)
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Condition of Secrecy Tekijä: Inger Christensen
Just can't decide how I feel about this one.
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This collection is absolutely beautiful, breathtaking, terrifying, sad & hopeful...so many things at once. The narrative impact of the mathematical structure is so intense & perfectly suited to a book concerned with nature and the danger posed to it by humanity. This book is filled with Cold War/nuclear-age anxiety as well as a quiet, lovely reverence for the simple existence of natural things. The contrast between death and existence, between death as natural and death as human-created finality is so well portrayed throughout.
Definitely a wonderful, gorgeous work of both poetry and translation.… (lisätietoja)
Definitely a wonderful, gorgeous work of both poetry and translation.… (lisätietoja)
I read this in brief segments over the course of a few months. The genius of this work can be found not only in the mathematically inspired composition, but in Nied's brilliant translation. Christensen used the Fibonacci sequence to inspire the structure of the poems, but there is a poignant richness brought by the words themselves to the themes of environment, nature, progress, humanity in the midst of metaphysical simplicity. I think this is the most I've ever enjoyed a book of poetry.
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