Inger Christensen

Inger Christensen was born in Vejle in 1935, the daughter of a tailor and a cook. She finished secondary school in 1954, began studies in Copenhagen, then obtained her teaching diploma at Aarhus in 1958. The poet and critic Poul Borum guided her in her early years; she married him in 1959 and divorced in 1976. After a year of teaching at the art school in Holbæk, she lived by her pen, also writing novels, essays and radio plays. A member of the Danish Academy, she died in Copenhagen in 2009.

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