Bibliography
PIA TAFDRUP (f. 1952 i København)
Books
The Heart at it´s Zenith. Poems. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2024.
The Touch of Skin. Poems. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2022
The Sound of Clouds. Poems. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2020
The Sight of Light. Poems. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2018
The Smell of Snow. Poems. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2016, Bloodaxe 2021
The Taste of Steel. Poems. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2014, Bloodaxe 2021
Salamander Sun. Poems. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2012, Bloodaxe 2015
The Migrant Birds´ Compass. Poems. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2010, Bloodaxe 2015
Star Without Land. Novel. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2008
Boomerang. Poems. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2008
The Dreamt Tree. Photoes: Hanne Skyum. Poems Pia Tafdrup. University of Southern Denmark Press 2007
Jump Across The Shadow. Selected Poems 1981-2006. Poems. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2007
Tarkovsky´s Horses. Poems. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2006, Bloodaxe 2010
Surrender. Novel. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2004.
The Whales in Paris. Poems. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2002, Bloodaxe 2010
Poems 1989-1998. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2001
Poems 1984-1988. Gyldendal Copenhagen 2000
Poems 1981-1983. Gyldendal Copenhagen 1999
Thousand Born. Poems. Gyldendal Copenhagen 1999
Queen´s Gate. Poems. Gyldendal Copenhagen 1998, Bloodaxe 2001
Queen´s Gate: Karalienes vãrti. Nordik Riga 2001
Territorial Song. Poems. Copenhagen 1994
The Crystal Forest. Poems. Copenhagen 1992
Walking over the Water. An Outline of a Poetics. Copenhagen 1991
The Earth Is Blue. Play. Gråsten 1991
Death in the Mountains. Play. Gråsten 1988
The Bridge of Moments. Poems. Copenhagen 1988
White Fever. Poems. Copenhagen 1986
Spring Tide. Poems. Copenhagen 1985, Forest Books 1989
The Innermost Zone. Poems. Copenhagen 1983
No Hold. Poems. Copenhagen 1982
When an Angel Breaks her Silence. Poems. Copenhagen 1981
Radio play
Death in the Mountains 1990
Libretto
The Town of Viso (choreographer: Efva Lilja) 1999
Edited
Poetry 1980 – 1985. Herning, systime 1985
Constellations – an Anthology of Danish Poems. Herning, systime 1982
Transformations. Poetry 1980 – 1985. Herning, systime 1985
CD
Pia Tafdrup & Køs: Ud af en mund. Barefoot Records 2021
Pia Tafdrup: “The Bird Compass”. CD Read by the poet in Danish. Gyldendal LYD (Produced at AudioResort) 2010 ISBN: 978-87-02-09986-7
Pia Tafdrup: Hengivelsen (Surrender) DBC medier, as 2004
Pia Tafdrup: From Dronningeporten (Queeńs Gate) Booktraders LyrikCD 11 2000
Pia Tafdrup: Udvalgte digte (Selected Poems) 1981-1994 (Ambia CD 3501-02) 1995
Vinyl
Pia Tafdrup & Køs: Ud af en mund. Barefoot Records 2021
Film
Tusindfødt. Digteren Pia Tafdrup. Instruktør Cæcilia Holbek Trier.Cosmo Film a/s. 2003 DVD Tusindfødt. Portrætfilm Tafdrup GB. Cæcilia Holbek Trier. ISBN 8702041340. 2005
About Pia Tafdrup
Angela Elisabeth Mellmann: Pia Tafdrup und die Deutsche Literatur. Von der Fakultät für Geistes- und Erziehungswissenschaften der Technischen Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig. Dissertation 2022.
Poetiske partiturer. Et portræt af Pia Tafdrups forfatterskab (red.) Marianne Barlyng og Michael Kallesøe Schmidt. Spring, Gråsten 2022
Mindst ét sår har kroppen altid. Pia Tafdrups forfatterskab (red. Carsten Dilling). København 1995
Readings
Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, The Faroe islands, Greenland, England, Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Austria, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Rumania, Slovenia, Macedonia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, the Ukraine, Turkey, USA, Canada, Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Israel, India, China, Vietnam, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Translations
Med vedno in nikoli. Selected poems in Slovenian. ISBN 978-961-298-195-2, translated by Silvana Orel Kos, Beletrina.
La boussole des oiseaux migrateurs 978-2-87704-278-9, translated by Janine Poulsen, preface by Bernard Chambaz, Editions Unes France. 2024
Selected Poems in Greece ISBN 978-618-5692-32-2 translated by Sotirios Souliotis. Saixpirikon, Greece 2024
Sinneskvintetten. Trans. Jan Henrik Swahn. Smockadoll Förlag, Malmö 2023
Flyttfågelns kompass. Trans. Jan Henrik Swahn. Smockadoll Förlag, Malmö 2022
The Taste of Steel & The Smell of Snow. Trans. David McDuff. Bloodaxe 2021
Úrval Ljóda 1982-2012. Trans. Sigridur Helga Sverrisdottir. Sæmundur. Island 2019
Sol de la Salamandra. Trans. Daniel Sancosmed Masiá. Ya lo dijo Casimiro Parker. Spain 2019
Le Soleil de la Salamandre. Trans. Janine Poulsen. Editions Unes. France 2019
TARKOVSKIN HEVOSET. Trans. Pirkko Talvio-Jaatinen. Finland 2018
Tarkowskis Pferde. Trans. by Peter Urban-Halle. Lyrik Kabinett Munich, Germany 2017
Riječi Putuju. Poezija. Biblioteka S. Hieronymus. Trans. Milena Rudež. Kuca poezije, Banja Luka 2017
Pia Tafdrup & Kikumi Shimoda: Duet of Snow. Western-Eastern Poets in Sympathy: Poetic Dialogue. Trans. Nobuku Fukui. Junpa Books, Kyoto, Japan 2017
De paarden van Tarkovski. Trans. Jytte Kronig. Wilde Aardbeien The Netherlands 2016
Bulunduğun Yerde. Seçme Şiirler. Trans. Murat Alpar. YKY Turkey 2016
Les Chevaux de Tarkovski. Trans. Janine & Karl Poulsen. Editions Unes Frankrig 2015
Salamander Sun & Other Poems. Trans. David McDuff. Bloodaxe England 2015
Salamandersol. Trans. Jonas Rasmussen. Ellerströms Förlag, Sweden 2013
Star Without Land. Trans. Janne Marie Fatland. Samlaget, Norway 2011
الكيد المرتد (Boomerang). Trans. Jamal Jumá. Arab Scientific Publishers, Inc. Beirut 2010
Tarkovsky´s Horses and other Poems. Trans. David McDuff, England 2010
Los caballos de Tarkovski. Trans. Francisco J. Uriz, Spain 2009
Белези на галежот. Selected poems. Trans. Zoran Anchevskij. SPE Publishing. Struga, Macedonia. 2007
Tarkovskijs hästar. Trans. Jan Henrik Swahn. Wahlström & Widstrand. Stockholm 2007
Ge sig hän. Trans. Jan Henrik Swahn. Wahlström & Widstrand. W&W Pocket Stockholm 2007
De koninginnepoort. Trans. Jytte Kronig. Wagner & Van Santen, Amsterdam 2006.
Ge sig hän. Trans. Jan Henrik Swahn. Wahlström & Widstrand. Stockholm 2006
Å gi seg bort. Trans. Stein Versto. Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo
Territorial Song. Trans. into Hebrew by Miriam Eytan. Carmel. Jerusalem, Israel 2005
Ponte de Focagem do Oceano. Trans. Laureano Silveira a.o. Quetzal Editores. Lisboa, Portugal 2004
Valarna i Paris. Trans. Sven Christer Swahn. Ellerströms Förlag, Sweden 2004
Bindoðumlu. Trans. Murat Alpar. Papirüs Yayinevi. Istanbul, Turkey 2004
Kristalni gozd. Trans. Maja Caserman. Aleph. Ljubljana, Slovenia 2004
Queen´s Gate. Trans. David McDuff. Bloodaxe, England 2001
Tiché v́ybuchy. Trans. Milan Richter. ESA, Slovakia 2000
La Forêt de Cristal. Trans. Carl Gustaf Bjurström. Circé, France 2000
Drottningporten. Trans. Sven Christer Swahn. Ellerströms Förlag, Sweden 2000
Över vattnet går jag. Trans. Anders Palm. Ellerströms Förlag, Sweden 1997, 2002
Dagen ditt ljus. Dikter 1981-1994. Trans. Marie Silkeberg & Magnus William-Olsson. Bonniers, Sweden 1995
Ten Poems. Trans. Roger Greenwald. Cloudberry Foundation. Toronto, Canada 1989
Spring Tide. Trans. Anne Born. Forest Books, England 1989
English versions of poems have appeared in more than fifty literary journals in the UK, USA and Canada. Poems have been translated into Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Greenlandic, German, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Polish, Rumanian, Greek, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Slovakian, Russian, Turkish, Bengali, Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese.
Memberships
Poets Circle, member 2013 –
The European Academy of Poetry, 2009 – 2011
The Council of Danish Arts Foundation, 2002 – 2009
The Danish Language Council, 1991-1999
Chairman of The Art Expert Commity of Three for the Literary Art, 1993-95
The Danish Academy, 1989-
Honours
The Ján Smrek Prize. Slovakia, 2009
The Swedish Academy´s Nordic Prize 2006
Danish Arts Foundation, production prize, for Tarkovsky´s Horse 2007
The Soeren Gyldendal Award, 2005
Knight of The Order of Dannebrog, 2001
The Nordic Council Literature Prize, 1999
Lifelong Artists´ Grants, 1998
Danish Literature Prize for Women from Ragna Sidén´s Foundation, 1997
The Grant in Memory of Morten Nielsen, 1995 Emil Aarestrup´s Medal, 1996
The Literature Prize of Weekend Avisen, 1995
Anckerske Grant, 1994
N. Bang´s Grant, 1992
Einar Hansens´s Grant, 1991
Edith Rode´s Grant, 1991
Tagea Brandt´s Grant, 1989
Otto Rung´s Grant, 1987
Henri Nathansen´s Birthday-Grant, 1987
Holger Drachmann´s Birthday-Grant, 1986
Three Year Scholarship for Authors from the Danish State Art Foundation, 1984
Pia Tafdrup
is a poet, writer and a member of The Danish Academy.
Honours include:
The Swedish Academy’s Nordic Prize 2006
The Soeren Gyldendal Award, 2005
The Nordic Council’s Literature Prize, 1999