Inger Christensen Natalja’s Stories review and information of the content of the novel by the author from Denmark. Penguin International Writers will publish the novella of the Danish writer Inger Christensen, on december 4, 2025.
Inger Christensen Natalja’s Stories review
- “Her luminous prose confirms what was already evident in the poems: that Christensen was one of the eminent visionaries of the twentieth century.” (Los Angeles Review of Books)
- “A magnificent writer. I always hoped she would be given the Nobel Prize. When she died, I said: ‘Now they’ve let Inger die.’ I wouldn’t have minded waiting. I could have received it later, or perhaps not at all.” (Herta Müller)
- “She whispers to me in my own writing, a brilliant, fierce literary mother whom I will read and re-read again and again.” (Siri Hustvedt)
Natalja’s Stories
- Author: Inger Christensen (Denmark)
- Book type: Danish novel
- Publisher: Penguin International Writers
- To be released: 4 December 2025
- Length: 96 pages
- Format: paperback / ebook
- Prize: £ 10.99 / £ 7.99
- Order book from: Amazon / Bol
Blurb of the novel by Inger Christensen
This is the story of a young woman who is spirited away to St. Petersburg from Copenhagen by a lovestruck admirer. When she dies after the Russian Revolution, her ashes are carried back to Denmark, igniting a chain reaction of further stories, told and retold by the women in her family against a shifting ground of meaning. We meet murderers and fable-like characters, such as the hilarious and unsettling Viktor Blanke, who manages to seduce not one but three generations of mothers and daughters. Natalja, we discover, cannot be held in one place. Rather than giving in to the tragedy that befalls her, she wills herself to become someone else, reinventing her family’s narrative one irresistible tale at a time.
Tantalizing and full of wit, this remarkable, shape-shifting novel is available in English for the first time.
Inger Christensen was born on January 16, 1935, in Vejle, Denmark. She was a Danish poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright. Christensen is one of the most important Scandinavian poets of her generation. Toward the end of her life, she was consistently mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Inger Christensen died on January 2, 2009, in Copenhagen. She was 73 years old.