Found in Translation: Mona Høvring

Access this event when it premieres on YouTube! Click here to watch the stream.

Winner of the 2021 Dobloug Prize (Norway), Longlisted for the Prix Femina 2021 (France), Winner of the Norwegian Critics’ Prize for Literature, Shortlisted for the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize... and now a Found in Translation Feature at Upstart & Crow.

We are delighted to present an interview with the prolific and enigmatic Mona Høvring: an award-winning poet and author, whose most recent work, Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day That I Was Born, has captured imaginations and hearts across Europe, and now Canada.

Aimee Wall calls it, "A luminous tale of the “burdensome tenderness” between sisters and the emotional tumult of breaking free, Høvring’s novel transports you to the faded grandeur of a hotel high up in a Norwegian mountain village. Høvring’s prose, in Rankin and Dickson’s translation, is sensual and searching and allusive; it shimmers with a strange winter light. I fell immediately under its spell.”

This is one of our top recommendations of books this season.

Don't miss an opportunity to discover more about its author, the inspiration behind it, and the process of moving a book into translation.

About the Author: Mona Høvring is the author of six poetry collections and four novels. Her previous novels include the acclaimed Something That Helps (2004), The Waiting Room in the Atlantic (2012), winner of the Unified Language Prize, and Camilla’s Long Nights (2013), nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day that I Was Born won the Norwegian Critics’ Prize for Literature, was a finalist for the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize, and was included on numerous critics’ Best of 2018 book lists.