It is well known that Leonard Cohen, the Canadian singer ... where he meets Marianne Ihlen, then the wife of the Norwegian novelist Axel Jensen. They fall in love and embark upon a relationship ...

I emerged from a cinema showing Nick Broomfield’s Marianne & Leonard: Words Of Love earlier this year feeling rather less fond of Leonard Cohen than when I’d gone in. It was hard to ignore the ...

In 1966 a Canadian fellow uni student of mine gave me a copy of a poetic, mysterious and sexy novel called Beautiful Losers by one Leonard Cohen. I was so entranced that next year I bought the ...

Leonard Norman Cohen was born in Montreal in 1934 to ... of Hydra (where he lived on-and-off for several years with Marianne Jensen and her son, Axel, the inspiration behind “So Long, Marianne ...

"Laugh and cry and cry and laugh" as you take in the beautiful and troubled 1960s romance of poet and musician Leonard Cohen and his greatest muse, Marianne Ihlen. The two met serendipitously in ...