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[email protected] MADAME NIELSEN “No one has such a distinctive and elegant linguistic signature as Madame Nielsen. Her writing style is as ruthlessly self-exposing as it is radical.“ —Weekendavisen Madame Nielsen LAMENTO Madame Nielsen LAMENTO Original title Original publisher German Madame Nielsen is a novelist, Lamento Grif, 2020 Kiepenheuer & Witsch artist, performer, world histo- 174 pp. ry enactor, composer, chan- teuse – and multi-gendered. English translation Born as Claus Beck-Nielsen sample available in 1963 in Aalborg, Denmark, she is the author of numerous literary works. A pioneer of „performative biographism” and “Scandinavian autofiction” the artist declared the death of Claus Beck-Nielsen in 2001, published Claus Beck-Nielsen (1963–2001) – A Biography, ”It is a most unusually followed by The Suicide Mis- worldly and wise novel, a call sion and continues to work as to embrace the everyday with Madame Nielsen.