Vilhelm's Room by Ditlevsen, Tove
Vilhelm's Room by Ditlevsen, Tove

Vilhelm's Room

A searing final novel about the collapse of a marriage and its aftermath, by the author of...
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Author: Tove Ditlevsen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Vilhelm's Room by Ditlevsen, Tove

Vilhelm's Room

$30.00
Vilhelm's Room by Ditlevsen, Tove

Vilhelm's Room

$30.00
Author: Tove Ditlevsen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

A searing final novel about the collapse of a marriage and its aftermath, by the author of the modern classic Copenhagen Trilogy.

I want to write a book about Vilhelm's room and the events which took place in it, or arose from it; those that led to Lise's death, which I have survived only so that I might write down the story of her and Vilhelm . . .

The ripples from a breakup radiate outward from the room where a married couple once loved each other, and a bizarre Lonely Hearts ad sets off a train of tragicomic events that leads to an inevitable conclusion. Vilhelm's Room, Tove Ditlevsen's final novel--published a year before her untimely death in 1976--is a powerful conclusion to an extraordinary life as a poet, novelist, and memoirist: a blackly funny and devastating tour de force that pulses with life even as it journeys toward death.

Author: Tove Ditlevsen
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/12/2026
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.55h x 5.66w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780374613495


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2026
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2026
Library Journal 03/01/2026 pg. 97
Publishers Weekly 03/09/2026

About the Author

Tove Ditlevsen was born in 1917 in a working-class neighborhood 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 three volumes of The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood (1967), Youth (1967), and Dependency (1971). She died in 1976.

Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell are translators living in Copenhagen. Together, they have translated fiction and poetry by Danish writers such as Olga Ravn, Tove Ditlevsen, and Solvej Balle.
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