Christensen, Inger

Christensen, Inger

▪ Danish poet
born Jan. 16, 1935, Vejle, Den.
died Jan. 2, 2009, Copenhagen

      Danish poet whose linguistically sophisticated work explores the interconnections of language, fiction, and reality.

      The daughter of a tailor living on Denmark's Jutland coast, she graduated from Vejle Gymnasium in 1954 and studied at Teachers' College in Århus. While a student she began publishing poems and met the poet and critic Poul Borum, who was her mentor and (1959–76) husband. She taught briefly (1963–64) at the College for Arts in Holbæk before devoting herself exclusively to writing.

      Her early collections include Lys (1962; “Light”) and Græs (1963; “Grass”)—translated within the same volume as Light and Grass—both of which explore the relationship of language to the natural world with lyric maps of the Danish landscape. The publication of her long poem Det (1969; It) brought Christensen international acclaim. A 200-page exploration of the word it, the poem reveals the intellectual influence of thinkers such as Lars Gustafsson, Søren Kierkegaard (Kierkegaard, Søren), Noam Chomsky (Chomsky, Noam), and R.D. Laing (Laing, R.D.). The volume Alfabet (1981; Alphabet) builds on her earlier analogies between language and physical reality by applying alphabetic and numeric structures, such as the Fibonacci numbers, as principles of creative order.

      In addition to the poetry for which she is best known, Christensen also wrote novels, short stories, essays, children's stories, radio and stage plays, and opera librettos. Her award-winning poems have been set to music by Danish composers and translated into numerous languages.

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