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Naja Marie Aidt

    December 24, 1963

    Naja Marie Aidt is a Danish author whose works are characterized by a deep insight into the human psyche and the complexity of relationships. Her poetry and prose often explore themes of loss, identity, and the search for meaning in everyday life. Aidt approaches writing with remarkable sensitivity and precision, crafting texts that resonate with their honesty and literary power. Her unique style has earned recognition for its ability to capture the fragility and resilience of the human spirit.

    Süßigkeiten. Erzählungen
    Schere, Stein, Papier
    Das Wasserzeichen. Geschichten
    Noveller för världens barn 2012
    Tools for Extinction
    When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back
    • Tools for Extinction

      • 120 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      "Eighteen international writers respond to the open-ended period of social distancing, closures, and illness caused by Covid-19. Compiled during the initial lockdown in Europe, this special collection is a meteoric publishing project with contributions from some of the most exciting and innovative authors working today. Meditating on notions of distance and closeness, sameness and alterity, extinguishing and kindling, Tools for Extinction considers how a common pause might give rise to new modes of domesticity and shift experiences of time. What gestures and actions are we willing to perform to make ourselves, and each other, feel at ease - or at work? What tools and objects are useful, or unprecedentedly useless, to us in the process? And as our species' trademark proclivity for projecting ourselves into the future is disrupted, might we come to see the buildings, animals, plants, and foodstuffs around us in a new light? The anthology takes its name from Steven Brand's Whole Earth Catalog, a 1960s counterculture compendium of product reviews, essays, and articles on the themes of self-sufficiency, ecology, and alternative education. By giving "access to tools", a new social order and a more sustainable Earth was imagined."--Publisher's description

      Tools for Extinction2020
      3.6
    • In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's son Carl died at twenty-five years old in a tragic accident. When Death Takes Something from You, Give It Back describes the first year after that devastating phone call, until the shock slowly wears off. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child--showing how grief transforms your relationship to reality, your loved ones, and time--and a book about the language of poetry, loss, and love. How do you approach the impossible to write about your deceased child? The book's complex form enacts the rupture and process of assembling the pieces. There are short prose sections addressed to Carl and intense lyric passages. There are fragments from the present that merge with flashbacks and journal entries from the past. Quotes appear throughout from an array of literary voices, woven together with Naja Marie Aidt's own voice. This multifarious book defies genre or any singular description

      When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back2019
      4.1
    • Mit „beklemmender Eindringlichkeit“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung) erzählt die preisgekrönte dänische Autorin Naja Marie Aidt, wie die Vergangenheit einen Menschen unerwartet einholt und eine einzige falsche Entscheidung eine sorgfältig aufgebaute Existenz zum Einsturz bringt. Ein faszinierender Roman über die Bruchstellen des Lebens, das Gewicht der Vergangenheit und die Verletzlichkeit der menschlichen Existenz. Von einer der aufregendsten literarischen Stimmen unserer Zeit.

      Schere, Stein, Papier2017
      3.6
    • Bavian

      • 218 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Noveller om hverdagsmennesker og hverdagssituationer, som langsomt åbner sig og viser sig at være ikke så helt hverdagsagtige endda.

      Bavian2011
      2.5
    • Pavián

      • 204 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Kniha povídek, ve které autorka zkoumá odvrácenou, až zvířeckou stranu lidské existence – to ostatně naznačuje už její titul. Povídky krouží kolem nemoci, smrti, násilí, úzkosti, sexu a styl je lakonický, nevzrušený. Jenže to, co Aidtová líčí, je všednosti nebezpečně vzdálené. Ačkoli má adjektivum "všední" lehce záporný nádech, čtenář neodbytně zatouží právě po banalitě všednodennosti.

      Pavián2010
      4.2
    • Süßigkeiten. Erzählungen

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      „Modernes Liebesalphabet“ ist eine berührende Novellensammlung mit fünfzehn lakonisch erzählten Geschichten über Männer und Frauen in brüchigen, unsicheren Liebesbeziehungen. Sie thematisieren Untreue, Ängste und die Zerbrechlichkeit zwischenmenschlicher Bindungen. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Nordischen Literaturpreis.

      Süßigkeiten. Erzählungen2009
      2.7
    • Naja Marie Aidt präsentiert in ihren Erzählungen eine coole Stilistik, die von innerer Einsamkeit, Neurosen und der Unmöglichkeit menschlicher Beziehungen handelt. Die Protagonistin sehnt sich nach Schönheit und dem Blick der Männer, während sie in ihrer Abgeschiedenheit Billie Holiday hört und mit ihr weint.

      Das Wasserzeichen. Geschichten2001
      3.8