Description In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt\'s twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident.
Her translation of Naja Marie Aidt\'s short story collection Baboon won the 2015 PEN Translation Prize..
She has translated two books by Denmark\'s Inger Christensen.
Denise Newman is a translator and poet who has published four collections of poetry.
Her work has been translated into sixteen languages.
She is the author of eleven collections of poetry, a novel, and three short story collections, including Baboon, which won the 2008 Nordic Council Literature Prize, Scandinavia\'s highest literary honor.
About the Author Naja Marie Aidt was born in Greenland and raised in Copenhagen.
Chronicling the few first years after that devastating phone call, this work is at once a sober account of life after losing a child and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love.
Annotation In March 2015, Aidt\'s 25-year-old son died in a tragic accident.
Intensely moving, When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back explores what is it to be a family, what it is to love and lose, and what it is to treasure life in spite of death\'s indomitable resolve.
It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love.
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back chronicles the few first years after that devastating phone call.
Description In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt\'s twenty-five-year-old son, Carl, died in a tragic accident
