Who is Marianne?
Per B. Lilje (per.lilje@astro.uio.no): According to what I’ve heard Marianne Jensen was the wife of Norwegian novelist Axel Jensen who wrote a number of excellent novels in the late 50s and early 60s (“Line”, “Epp”, “Icarus”). They stayed for a while in Greek islands and met Cohen there. After a while Marianne dropped Axel Jensen and lived with Cohen for some years, on Hydra, in Canada and for a winter in Oslo (according to what LC said at a concert here in Oslo). I think they split in the mid or late sixties. According to the songbook “Songs of LC”, LC and Marianne got a son called Axel(!) around 1958/1959. I have no idea what happened to Axel Cohen and Marianne later, and where they live. In some interviews LC mentions his two children from a later marriage, his son is called Adam, but I see no references to Axel. After writing several, in Norway famous, novels in the period 1956-1965, Axel Jensen was very quiet for many years, mostly living in India and in a boat in Stockholm harbou
