Vónbjørt Vang

Black Orchid

Svørt Orkidé

Genre: Poetry
Publisher: Eksil
Year: 2023
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9789991889405
English sample translation available

Black Orchid is a formally daring poetry collection that gives grief, motherhood, and systemic failure an experimental lyrical language.

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 broader Nordic and international wave of feminist and maternal writing. 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 Faroese poet and author.

She has studied comparative literature and holds a BA in creative writing.

Awards
Nordic Council Literature Prize 2025
Readers Award (Faroese libraries) 2026
Faroese National Literature Prize (M.A. Jacobsen) 2024
Atlantic Airways listaflog 2026

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

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