Peter Høeg

Apr 9, 2024 | full-stop.net | Ravi Mangla |Peter Høeg

“I want a writer, [Varvara had] told my editor. I want someone who knows how to lie without being exposed.” That is how Pelle—our hapless, cash-strapped narrator—is thrust headlong into the life of aging socialite Varvara Eng and her lover Knud. In Simon Fruelund’s darkly comic novel The World and Varvara, information swirls and churns around Pelle, who has been tasked with ghostwriting Varvara’s memoir ahead of her eightieth birthday.

Mar 20, 2024 | reactormag.com | Rowdy Geirsson |Peter Høeg |Emmi Itäranta |John Ajvide Lindqvist

In the world of English-language books, the Nordic countries have a solid reputation for providing us with a steady stream of crime fiction (under the apt descriptor of “Nordic noir”) and children’s literature, including classics like Pippi Longstocking and the Moomins.