Winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2025
Vónbjørt Vang
Black Orchid
Svørt Orkidé
Genre: Fiction
Category: poetry
Publisher: Eksil
Year: 2023
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.
Layout by Kirstin Helgadóttir
Photo: Ana Holden-Peters
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.
Awards
Readers Award (Faroese libraries) 2026
Nordic Council Literature Prize 2025
Faroese National Literature Prize (M.A. Jacobsen) 2024
Rights sold to
Estonia
Greece
Iceland
Previous titles
Úr loggbókunum, 2023
Djúpini, 2019
Millumlendingar, 2011
Rightsholder
Copenhagen Literary Agency
Monica C. Gram
monica@cphla.dk
cphla.dk