Vilhelm's Room

Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighbourhood in Copenhagen. Her first volume of poetry was published when she was in her early twenties, and was followed by many more books, including the novels The Faces and Vilhelm''s Room and her autobiographical masterpiece, Childhood (1967), Youth (1967) and Dependency (1971). She married four times and died by suicide in 1976.>

Product details

• Authors: Tove Ditlevsen, Ditlevsen Tove
• Assisted by: Russell Jennifer (Translation), Sophia Hersi Smith (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.09.2025
• EAN: 9780241628980
• ISBN: 978-0-241-62898-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Denmark, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / World Literature / Denmark, Classic fiction: general and literary, marriage; modernism; novella; dark; feminism