Natalja's Stories

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

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

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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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