Reviews about Naja Marie Aidt

"Consummate, utterly convincing collections of short stories are few and far between in this country, but with her nine debut prose miniatures this is exactly what Naja Marie Aidt has produced. As a poet, Aidt has been reaching further and further afield during the last few years... There are many who can write about trauma, abuse, neuroses, conflict - Naja Marie Aidt included. But she can do something else as well, something more uncommon. Firstly, she can focus big stories in single images. Secondly, she can portray happiness in such a way that it feels specific and neither embarrassing nor trite... Each piece is self-possessed, waiting serenely for a reader. Nine contemporary Danish miniatures, nine little hearts beating with language."

Bo Green Jensen, Weekendavisen December 10 1993

"How come there´s such a foray of deranged men and women in Danish literature, especially in the work of young writers......And why are they so cool and sharp while at the same time being stylistic virtuosos? Naja Marie Aidt writes about these deranged people too, but with a warmth which makes all the difference - tangled love and a normal sister in the first story...Naja Marie Aidt´s short stories are simultaneously ´90s perversion and ´50s penetrating art of the short story."

Connie Bork, Politiken November 10 1993

"For her account of contemporary lack of love, generosity and tenderness, Naja Marie Aidt has chosen a ´denuded´ descriptive style which, without beating around the bush, goes straight to the heart of the matter with a realism which is so unwavering that it almost turns into pure abstraction. Monotony obviously lurks around the corner, but that it nevertheless doesn´t make an appearance is due to the precision and daring with which the writer seeks to penetrate those areas of our lives where dreams are smothered and aspirations frustrated."

Erik Skyum-Nielsen, Information October 27 1995

"Naja Marie Aidt´s Huset overfor is an unwavering and tightly composed depiction of how a dream is dashed: the dream of family. The title is The House Opposite, but the book mostly takes place in a house on this side of the street, the ´core´ house which is about to be peeled.....A process revised by the poems in an up-to-date and mature language which constantly draws attention to the fact that whatever might appear to be happening is also about something else - when seen from the house opposite."

Christian Yde Frostholm, Det fri Aktuelt, October 29 1996