Alfabet

Alphabet

Author

Inger Christensen

Language

Danish

Year

1981

First Pub.

Denmark

Genre

Epic / Long-form / Standalone Poem

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Alphabet is one of the best-known poems of Inger Christensen, who was broadly considered to be Denmark's most prominent poet. The poem was originally published in 1981 in Danish as alfabet. An English-language translation by Susanna Nied won the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize in 1982.