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Ulrikka S. Gernes

[HVIS JEG SIGER]

  • 1 [I SAMME SEKUND] | Translations: de
  • 2 [MÅNEN VED] | Translations: ende
  • 3 [EN FLIMREN] | Translations: de
  • 4 [ER DU ÉT] | Translations: de
  • 5 [DE SMÅ TIMER] | Translations: de
  • 6 [JEG NÆGTER] | Translations: ende
  • 7 [HVIS JEG SIGER] | Translations: ende
  • 8 [HVOR LÆNGE] | Translations: de
  • 9 [DIT NAVN STÅR] | Translations: ende
  • 10 [FRA NU AF] | Translations: ende
  • 11 [SÆRT, SOM DU ER I MINE TANKER] | Translations: de
  • 12 [PRÆCIS, HVAD DET VAR, JEG SKULLE HENTE] | Translations: de
  • 13 [HELE NATTEN DELTAGER JEG I ET QUIZSHOW, VÅGNER] | Translations: de
  • 14 [EN INTERGALAKTISK KOLLISION AF LYSGLIMT, LYDE]
  • 15 [PÅ VEJ LANGS NATTENS SKRÅPLAN, STÅLBLANKE]
Language: danish
Translations: english ([IF I SAY] ), german ([WENN ICH SAGE])
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[HVIS JEG SIGER]

HVIS JEG SIGER at hvide heste
hvide kister, hvide lagener slår i vinden
at du går rundt derinde
i det rum jeg skimter
gennem døre som springer op og op
jo længere ind jeg kommer
hvis jeg siger at hvide sider
kridhvide sider og flere hvide sider
slår flænger i luften og jeg sidder inde
med alt det blod der skal til
for at skrive et liv
og jeg har ingen hænder

© Ulrikka S. Gernes
From: Kamikaze
Valby: Borgens Forlag, 1999
Audio production: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin 2010

Translations:

Language: english

[IF I SAY]

IF I SAY that white horses
white coffins, white sheets lash in the wind
that you walk about in there
in a room I glimpse
behind a door that springs open and open
the further in I go
if I say that white pages
chalk-white pages and more white pages
rip the air and I hold
all the blood necessary
to write a life
and I have no hands

Translated into English by Per Brask and Patrick Friesen
Language: german

[WENN ICH SAGE]

WENN ICH SAGE daß weiße Pferde
weiße Särge, weiße Laken im Winde knattern
daß du da drinnen umhergehst
in dem Zimmer, das ich erahne
zwischen Türen, die auf und aufspringen
je weiter ich hineinkomme
wenn ich sage daß weiße Seiten
kreideweiße Seiten und noch mehr weiße Seiten
die Luft zerfetzen und ich all
das Blut habe, das es braucht
ein Leben zu schreiben
und ich habe keine Hände

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Ulrikka S. Gernes

* 06.06.1965, Ängelholm, Sweden
lives in: Copenhagen, Denmark

Ulrikka S. Gernes was born in Sweden in 1965 by Danish parents. At the age of eighteen, Moth, her first collection of poetry was published. It received a tremendously positive response from the press in Denmark. Since then she has published nine full-length collections of poetry, two books for children, several songs as well as frequent literary and journalistic contributions to anthologies, magazines, newspapers and Danish Radio.

During the 1990’s numerous travel grants made her many journeys and extensive sojourns throughout Asia possible. For a number of years she lived in Hong Kong before returning to Denmark in 1998.

Among the many stipends and awards she received was the prestigious three-year stipend from the Danish Arts Agency in 2003.

Ulrikka S. Gernes has been invited by many interntional literature festivals, especially in Canada. Her poetry is translated into English, German, Aarabic, Serbian and many other languages. She lives in Copenhagen.

Publications
  • Natsværmer (Moth)

    poems

    Valby: Borgen, 1984

  • Englekløer (Angel Claws)

    poems

    Valby: Borgen, 1985

  • Hjortehjerte (Deer Heart)

    poems

    Valby: Borgen, 1987

  • Skriftsteder (Scriptures)

    poems

    Valby: Borgen, 1989

  • At (To)

    poems

    Valby: Plagiat Forlag, 1990

  • Gribbenes himmel (Heaven of Vultures)

    poems

    Valby: Borgen, 1993

  • Til (For)

    poems

    Valby: Borgen, 1995

  • Amnesia (Amnesia)

    poems, bi-lingual Danish-English

    Copenhagen: Brøndum Forlag, 1995

  • Kamikaze

    poems

    Valby: Borgen, 1999

  • A Sudden Sky

    selected poems in English translation by Per Brask and Patrick Friesen

    London, Ontario: Brick Books, 2001

  • En aften med Ulrikka S. Gernes (An evening with Ulrikka S. Gernes)

    poems

    Valby: Borgen, 2005

  • Misforståelsen (A kitten for Cat)

    children's book

    Valby: Borgen, 2007

  • Pepitas tudetur (Pepita's big cry)

    children's book

    Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 2008

  • Wo Schmetterlinge überwintern können

    selected poems translated into German by Hanns Grössel

    Berlin: Friedenauer Presse, 2009

  • Flosset opus for strygere & blæsere

    Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 2012

Awards
  • 1995 Hulda Lütken og Jacobs Legat

  • 1995 Autorkontoen

  • 1997 Nordisk Rejselegat

  • 1998 Danidas Rejselegat

  • 1999 Peter Freuchens Legat

  • 1999 Autorkontoen

  • 2000 Litteraturrådet

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