Vónbjørt Vang

Black Orchid

Svørt Orkidé

• Genre: Fiction

• Category: Poetry

• Publisher: Eksil

• Year: 2024

• Pages: 88

• ISBN: 9789991889405

• English sample translation available

A mother’s experience of having a son struggling and finding his path in life.

Faced with difficulty finding the proper expression, the work provides the hardships of motherhood an artistic language through poems, lyrical glimpses, essayistic parts, collages, flashbacks and diary excerpts with references and quotes from the history of literature.

The work is part of a current wave of motherhood literature, which it both discusses and refers to. This literature creates a starting point for the work’s search for form and meaning in grief. At the same time, the collection of poems touches on topical issues of parenting in today’s society; on a system that is failing and young people who are increasingly having a bad time in life.

Vónbjørt Vang is an award-winning author, poet and librarian.

Vang has studied comparative literature and holds a BA in creative writing. She has had short stories and poems published in a variety of journals and anthologies.

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