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Dec 6, 2024 | 
dn.no | Vigdis Hjorth
Tidlig på 1980-tallet bodde jeg i København med min siviløkonom-mann og en liten sønn. Vår omgangskrets besto av andre norske siviløkonomer fra NHH og andre steder. Det var jappetid og mange av dem var høye på seg selv, nyliberalismen vant fram, høyrebølgen skyllet over oss, ikke bare Willoch i Norge, men Kohl i Tyskland, Thatcher i England.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
bigissue.com | Vigdis Hjorth |Charlotte Barslund
Books A portrait of a relationship as a toxic distraction from necessary self-examination by: Billie Walker There are many iterations of the obsessive female lover, from bunny boilers to those left hanging on the telephone. Whether this reflection on a love affair becomes a trite tribute or a poetic tragedy depends entirely on the artist. It takes two to tango but one to become obsessive.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
theparisreview.org | Emily Witt |Vigdis Hjorth |Daisy Atterbury
By The Paris Review September 20, 2024 I did not have a good time reading Vigdis Hjorth’s novel If Only. I felt, in fact, kind of abject—but something about the novel compelled me forward, in a way that sometimes actually confused me. I found myself reading fifty pages, putting it down, picking it up a week later and once again being unable to stop reading, then abandoning it for another week.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Vigdis Hjorth |Charlotte Barslund
IF ONLY, by Vigdis Hjorth. Translated by Charlotte Barslund. Youthful heartbreak notwithstanding, I suppose it must be possible to get through life without ever having confronted love or desire as truly capsizing events - as mental, moral or practical ruin. Some of us manage to consign such interludes to the list of a life's wrong turns: the "bad place" in which you found yourself, the lure of a "narcissist," the deranging effects of misplaced longing.
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May 14, 2024 | 
mariskreizman.substack.com | Vigdis Hjorth |Charlotte Barslund |Maris Kreizman
ALL FOURS by Miranda JulyA lot of people are gonna be talking about this one, for good reason. And not just because of the sex scenes. I come to this novel the same age as the unnamed protagonist is at the start, and July nails what it feels like to inhabit an aging — but still vital! — human body. July’s heroine goes way harder than might be advised in order to wrestle with her philosophical quandaries, which makes for a truly scintillating read. But the basic questions of the novel feel universal.
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May 7, 2024 | 
centerforfiction.org | Vigdis Hjorth |Astrid Roemer
Friday, 7:00 pm EDTMay 10, 2024 The Center for Fiction& LivestreamedVigdis Hjorth and Astrid Roemer, icons of Norwegian and Dutch-language literature, join The Center for Fiction for a discussion of their groundbreaking novels. In Hjorth’s Is Mother Dead, translated by Charlotte Barslund, a middle-aged, recently widowed artist prepares for a retrospective of her work—a controversial exploration of motherhood that has brought about a rift between her and her aging mother.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
thebookerprizes.com | Violaine Huisman |Leslie Camhi |Elizabeth Strout |Vigdis Hjorth
The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman, translated by Leslie CamhiOriginally published in French and longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize, Violaine Huisman’s debut novel, The Book of Mother, is a fictionalised memoir of the author’s childhood as she navigates life with her unpredictable and chaotic mother.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
versobooks.com | Vigdis Hjorth |Vigdis Hjorth’s
About halfway through Vigdis Hjorth’s A House in Norway, her protagonist, Alma, a textile artist and reluctant landlord, declines her boyfriend’s invitation to join him on a trip with several other couples at a cabin in the woods. The boyfriend, disappointed, lectures Alma ‘about normality’, a recurring theme in their relationship:The passage is both highly entertaining – Hjorth is frequently hilarious – and richly ironic.
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Apr 30, 2023 | 
readingindie.substack.com | NYRB Classics |Vigdis Hjorth |Hélène Cixous |Sarah E. Cornell
I’m sending out this round-up of my March reading before we get to May (barely) — I’ll take that as a win. Here are the books I read last month: This was the March pick for One Bright Book — you can listen to our conversation here or in your podcast app — and we had a lot of fun discussing it. The book is out of print in the U.S., and I’d love to know why. Do any of my readers know the story here? The book was recently reissued in the U.K., but not here.
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Apr 20, 2023 | 
asymptotejournal.com | Manoranjan Byapari |Vigdis Hjorth
In this week’s updates on world literature, our Editors-at-Large bring you updates on literary awards and interdisciplinary festivals! From applied computer science for literature to books for Dalit History Month, read on to find out more!Eva Wissting, Editor-at-Large, reporting from SwedenEarlier this month, Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth was announced the recipient of the inaugural Sara Danius Foundation Prize.
