Natalja's Stories

She whispers to me in my own writing, a brilliant, fierce literary mother whom I will read and re-read again and again

Siri Hustvedt

Her luminous prose confirms what was already evident in the poems: that Christensen was one of the eminent visionaries of the twentieth century

Los Angeles Review of Books

A magnificent writer. I always hoped she would be given the Nobel Prize. When she died, I said: ‘Now they’ve let Inger die.’ I wouldn't have minded waiting. I could have received it later, or perhaps not at all

Herta Müller

Christensen’s probing, questioning, hopeful voice was an important one and is missed

Kirkus Reviews

Instead of a conventional story of suffering, loss and disaster, the book is a tantalizing, playful account of a character seizing the moment, leaving the past behind, and becoming someone else – a deconstruction of the usual take on the migrant’s fate as a tragic narrative

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If Natalja’s Stories were a painting, I’d probably still be standing in front of it

Ceci Browning, The TImes