Description One of the best-selling poetry collections of the past decade, Asta Olivia Nordenhof\'s the Easiness and the Loneliness took Denmark by storm with its refreshing honesty and directness about growing up in a challenging family situation.
She has twice been a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation..
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 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.
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.
About the author Asta Olivia Nordenhof made her debut in 2011 with the novel Et ansigt til Emily (A Face for Emily), which won the Bodil and J rgen Munch-Christensen Debutant Prize.
A fiery book that attracted great praise from reviewers and readers, and won the 2013 Montanas Literature Prize.
Nordenhof eschews traditional ideas of poetic beauty in favor of poems that double as social critiques, addressing the inequalities in Denmark, the difficulties of living under great financial strain, of various forms of abuse, and of working in a brothel.
Description One of the best-selling poetry collections of the past decade, Asta Olivia Nordenhof\'s the Easiness and the Loneliness took Denmark by storm with its refreshing honesty and directness about growing up in a challenging family situation