It's lovely to see Tove Ditlevsen gaining her deserved recognition in the world! But it is not true that she is unanimously celebrated in Denmark. She has always been at the center of a almost century long discussion of taste and literary quality. Thread
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\u201cSad girls in Europe\u201d have become a marketing clich\xe9, elevated from the domain of steadfast bloggers and thoughtful small presses to the interest of major cultural institutions, as with the @nytimes Overlooked obituary series."@laurenoyler https://t.co/wCag5XFGRG
— Harper's Magazine (@Harpers) January 10, 2021

You can read an interesting run-through of the debate at the time (yes, of course we have passionate literary debates in Denmark!)
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