My Work

Winner of the 2020 Politiken Literature Prize
From International Booker Prize-shortlisted author Olga Ravn comes a workplace novel unlike any other.
Upon publication in Denmark, the novel kick-started public debate about women’s rights to a safe birth.
A highly personal and dazzling literary page-turner on motherhood and writing.
For readers of Maggie Nelson, Kate Zambreno, Sheila Heti, Rachel Cusk, Rachel Yoder, and Tove Ditlevsen.
Influenced by writers including Doris Lessing, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Shelley.
Combines prose, poetry, drama, essays, diaries and letters in an uncompromising and deeply personal portrait of post-natal depression, exploring the life and work of a female artist in a challenging and moving way.