Madame Nielsen (www.nielsen.re) is a writer, stage director, composer and singer who belongs to the global Nielsen movement. Author of the trilogy Selvmordsaktionen (2005), Suverænen (2008) and Store Satans fald (2012), in 2014 she published El verano infinito, which she then followed with training novel Invasionen (2016) and Det højeste væsen (2017). She has received several literary awards, and was shortlisted for the Nordic Council Literature Award in 2006, 2014 and 2016. Her works have been translated into 12 languages. For the stage Madame Nielsen, in collaboration with the Danish Royal Theatre, produced dramatic pentalogy Mediernes Teater, which comprises, to date: De europæiske medier (2012), De elskende (2013) and Markedet (er ikke noget sted) (2015). As part of musical ensemble The Nielsen Sisters she has released five albums and performed at numerous concerts in Europe and America. Madame Nielsen was responsible for the Das Beckwerk project (www.dasbeckwerk.com) until 2010.
Book launch for El verano infinito by Madame Nielsen.
Boy meets girl and they spend long days and nights in her bed, in a large country house. There she lives with her mother, who with long ivory hair rides on horseback at sunset, her younger siblings, and a jealous stepfather who soon disappears and whose absence allows other young people to take up residence in the house until they form an unusual and unlikely group. Among these is a very young Portuguese artist, who becomes the mother’s new lover. Their relationship opens up a magical door for everyone: from everyday life to the “infinite summer”, those lengthy days that live on in memory and that, once gone, stop anything else from ever shining as they did. Madame Nielsen has written a novel both melancholic and ironic; timeless, and yet at the same time unmistakeably contemporary.
