Reviews about Mette Winge
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The Spinster Scribe
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Skriverjomfruen (The Spinster Scribe) is quite simply a magnificent feat – entertaining, historical and psychologically fascinating, full of effects as a popular comedy of the modern sort, and with an often almost too obvious appeal to our own times: “Why doesn’t Denmark venerate her poets?”
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Jens Kistrup in Berlingske Tidende, 15 November 1988
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The Spinster Scribe
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The stink is one of the many elements Mette Winge uses in her depiction of Copenhagen at the end of the 1700s. The stink, both the regular sharp-in-the-nostrils stink which characterized country and city and the citizens, and the stink which emanated from gossip and prying. For Skriverjomfruen (The Spinster Scribe) isn’t just the story of a curious fate, it is also a brilliant, empathetic picture of life among the high and the low in byegone times. Humanity’s desire and lusts, need and perversities.
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Annelise Vestergaard in Jyllandsposten, 15 November 0.1988
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Sand Drift
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Sandflugt (Sand Drift) is written with Mette Winge’s usual linguistic gusto. Trudging explanations and limp worn images are, so to speak, never found in her. She is also a constantly more astute crafter of novels, and understands how to tie surprising bows of action and open new angles into her story.
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Marie-Louise Paludan in Weekendavisen, 11 November 1991
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