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Leonard Cohen

Forfatterbiografi

Leonard Norman Cohen var en canadisk digter, romanforfatter og singer-songwriter, født 21. september 1934 i Montreal, Quebec, og han døde 7. november 2016 i Los Angeles. Han debuterede som forfatter med digtsamlingen Let Us Compare Mythologies (1956), hvor han tidligt arbejdede med religiøse, mytologiske og filosofiske temaer. Bogen regnes som hans første og markerede starten på et forfatterskab, der senere bredte sig til både prosa og musik. Cohens kunstneriske karriere forenede poesiens sproglige præcision med sangens melankoli og eksistentielle spænding. Han blev særlig kendt for sit arbejde som tekstforfatter og fremfører af sange, hvor kærlighed, død, tro og længsel blev behandlet med en genkendelig, ofte stramt disciplineret stil. Som litterær skikkelse stod han også for en markant sammensmeltning af poetisk tradition og moderne populærkultur, hvilket gjorde ham indflydelsesrig langt ud over Canadas grænser. For den samlede litterære betydning modtog Cohen i 2011 Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras (Litteraturprisen), tildelt for en litterær indsats, der havde påvirket tre generationer verden over gennem fusionen af poesi og musik. Hans vedvarende betydning for litteraturen ligger i, at han gjorde digtning og sang til to sider af samme kunstneriske udtryk: et sprog, der både kan læses som litteratur og synges som identitet og erkendelse.

Bøger af Leonard Cohen

'Let Us Compare Mythologies'
'Let Us Compare Mythologies'

Bog | Engelsk

First published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first collection of poetry. It is an accomplished and passionate collection which demonstrates Cohen's remarkably assured voice, even as a youn

'The Favourite Game'
'The Favourite Game'

Bog | Engelsk

This warm and lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman, the only son of a Jewish Montreal family. Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A sc

'Book of Mercy'
'Book of Mercy'

Bog | Engelsk

The poems in Book of Mercy brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, yet in tones that resonate with an older devotional tradition, these verses give voice to our deepest, most powerful intuitions. Int

'A Ballet of Lepers'
'A Ballet of Lepers'

Bog | Engelsk

AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR Before 'Hallelujah', 'Suzanne' and 'Famous Blue Raincoat', the young Leonard Cohen was a gifted writer of prose. In this previously unpublished work, readers will discover the magic that animated Cohen&

'Book of Longing'
'Book of Longing'

Bog | Engelsk

Før Leonard Cohen blev internationalt berømt som sanger og sangskriver, var han allerede en anerkendt digter. Efter hans populære digtsamling "Book of Mercy" fra 1984, holdt han dog en lang pause fra poesiens verden. Der kom nemlig til at gå 20

'Leonard Cohen Poems'
'Leonard Cohen Poems'

Bog | Engelsk

This anthology contains a cross-section covering his career, including such legendary songs as 'Suzanne', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Bird on the Wire', 'Famous Blue Raincoat' and 'I'm Your Man' and searingly memorable

'Beautiful Losers'
'Beautiful Losers'

Bog | Engelsk

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, this uninhibited tale centres on the hapless members of a love triangle, and their sexual obsession and shared fascination with a mythic saint. Revolving around four central - and intrinsically flawe

'The Flame'
'The Flame'

Bog | Engelsk

Just weeks before his death in late 2016, Leonard Cohen told The New Yorker that he was ready for the end to come. He just wanted enough time to put his last book in order. Fortunately, that time was granted. The Flame is Cohen's eloquent farewell, a

'Book of Longing'
'Book of Longing'

Bog | Engelsk

An iconic poetry collection from American luminary Leonard Cohen, containing some of his most significant verse Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing --his first book of poetry in more than twenty years after 1984's Book of Mercy --during h

'Beautiful Losers'
'Beautiful Losers'

Bog | Engelsk

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Leonard Cohen' s most defiant and uninhibited work. As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his relat

'Smukke tabere'
'Smukke tabere'

Bog | Dansk

Omdrejningspunktet for Leonard Cohens mest læste roman, Smukke tabere, er de tre hovedpersoners intrikate kærligheds- og elskovstrekant samt deres særdeles fejlbarlige personligheder. Den navnløse hovedperson, hans kone Edith og deres mystiske ven og ment

'The Flame'
'The Flame'

Bog | Engelsk

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD FOR POETRY The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring po

'Poems and Songs'
'Poems and Songs'

Bog | Engelsk

A magnificent selection of song lyrics and poems from across the storied career of one of the most daring and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. In the more than half century since his first book of poems was published, Leonard Cohen has evolved int

'Yndlingslegen'
'Yndlingslegen'

Bog | Dansk

Leonard Cohens debutroman Yndlingslegen fra 1963 er den delvist selvbiografiske fortælling om drømmeren og digteren Lawrence Breavman, eneste søn i en gammel jødisk Montreal-familie, som kaster sig over livets muligheder med glubende appetit. Hans fars ny

'De spedalskes ballet'
'De spedalskes ballet'

Bog | Dansk

I 1963 udkom Leonard Cohens romandebut Yndlingslegen, men allerede i 1956 skrev han den indtil nu uudgivne roman De spedalskes ballet. Senere har Cohen selv udtalt om bogen, at den sikkert er en bedre roman end Yndlingslegen, men det er alligevel først nu

'The Flame'
'The Flame'

Bog | Engelsk

"The Flame" er Leonard Cohens allersidste ord samlet i en dyb, lyrisk og bevægende digtsamling. Før Leonard Cohen gik døden møde i november 2016, samlede han en række hidtil usete digte, tekster og tegninger til denne skønne og rørende digtsamli

'Let Us Compare Mythologies'
'Let Us Compare Mythologies'

Bog | Engelsk

Published in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, Let Us Compare Mythologies is Leonard Cohen's first book. Long out of print, it is now available exactly as it appeared fifty years ago as one of the four hundred copies published by the McGill Poetr

Book of Longing
Book of Longing

Bog | Engelsk

An iconic poetry collection from American luminary Leonard Cohen, containing some of his most significant verse Leonard Cohen wrote the poems in Book of Longing --his first book of poetry in more than twenty years after 1984's Book of Mercy --during h

'Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows'
'Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows'

Bog | Engelsk

Previously unseen journals, letters, sketches and more from the vast personal archive of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the human heart. The objects, papers and artifacts from Cohen&#3