Marianne ihlen

In November 2016, the singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, renowned for his melancholic and romantic ballads, died a few months after the woman who inspired many of his famous songs – his Norwegi…

The romance between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen inspired countless Cohen songs

Marianne Ihlen, who has died aged 81, was the muse and sometime lover of the tormented Canadian balladeer, Leonard Cohen;

It is August 20, 2013 and Leonard Cohen is on stage at Spektrum arena in Norway. The Canadian singer is 78 and enjoying a late-period critical and commercial renaissance that began with his return to touring in 2008 after 15 years away, and the release of his 2012 album Old Ideas. In the show Cohe

Highlights from more than 50 letters Leonard Cohen wrote to his muse and lover, offering insights into his life and his art

Christie’s to auction over 50 letters from Leonard Cohen to his muse and lover, together with seven of Marianne’s Ihlen’s own letters

It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year since Leonard Cohen‘s passing. A year without the great poet, writer, composer and performer whose life was transformed by his interaction with Greek culture on the small island of Hydra. On September 27, 1960, six days after his twenty-sixth birthday, Cohen bought a house on Hydra […]

But singer is too elusive for new biography to be definitive