Vilhelm's Room

Tove Ditlevsen (Author) 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. Sophia Hersi Smith (Translator) Sophia Hersi Smith is a translator living in Copenhagen. Together with Jennifer Russell, she has translated fiction and poetry by Danish writers such as Olga Ravn, Tove Ditlevsen and Solvej Balle. Jennifer Russell (Translator) Jennifer Russell is a translator living in Copenhagen. Together with Sophia Hersi Smith, she has translated fiction and poetry by Danish writers such as Olga Ravn, Tove Ditlevsen and Solvej Balle.

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
• Release: 03.09.2026
• EAN: 9780241628997
• ISBN: 978-0-241-62899-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Denmark, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Fiction in translation, FICTION / World Literature / Denmark, Narrative theme: interior life / psychological fiction, Classic fiction: literary and general, Narrative theme: love / relationships, marriage; modernism; novella; dark; feminism