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Asta Olivia Nordenhof made her debut in 2011 with the novel Et ansigt til Emily (A Face for Emily), which won the Bodil and Jrgen Munch-Christensen Debutant Prize. She is a graduate of the School of Authors in Copenhagen, and won the 2013 Montanas Literature Prize for her poetry collection, The Easiness and the Loneliness. She has worked as a prostitute, and runs a blog that combines diary entries, poems, excerpts of critical theory texts, and observations on everything from feminism to red wine. Susanna Nied is a writer and translator who received the Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets in 2007 for her translation of it by Inger Christensen. She has twice been a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
Winner of the 2013 Montanas Literature Prize for the easiness and the loneliness. Asta Olivia Nordenhof's evocative, memory-based poems from her acclaimed debut combine the narrators daily life in Copenhagen with memories of a difficult childhood marred by illness, death, grief, and violence. Personal experiences alternate with fragmentary aphorisms suggesting new directions, not least with regards to memory. --�sa Arping, History of Nordic Women's Literature It is a hard, difficult life that Nordenhof has put in front of us in this book, and it is very compelling to read--and written in a very straightforward style. [. . .] There is every reason to follow Nordenhof with keen interest in the future, there is so much promise, such great originality in her universe. --Torben Wendelboe, Litteratursiden
