the easiness and the loneliness

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.”—Åsa 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