Description
After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf the new mother, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively buys clothes she can't afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, Anna forces herself to read and write. My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms - fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and letters - to explore the relationship between motherhood, work, individuality, and literature.
A TIME MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF AUTUMN 2023 WINNER OF THE POLITIKEN LITERATURE PRIZE
About the Author
OLGA RAVN (b. 1986) is one of Denmark's most celebrated contemporary authors. Her novel The Employees, translated by Martin Aitken, was nominated for numerous prizes, including the International Booker Prize and the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. TIME Magazine named THE EMPLOYEES one of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2022. MY WORK won the Politiken Literature Prize in 2020. In collaboration with Danish publisher Gyldendal, Ravn edited a selection of Tove Ditlevsen's texts and books that relaunched Ditlevsen's readership worldwide. She has also worked as a critic, teacher, and translator. Ravn lives in Copenhagen. SOPHIA HERSI SMITH and JENNIFER RUSSELL are translators living in Copenhagen. They received an American-Scandinavian Foundation Award for their co-translation of Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild's All the Birds in the Sky in 2020. Their translations have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Asymptote, EuropeNow, Poetry International, and on stage.
Reviews
'This novel from Olga Ravn, this new golden notebook, needs to be read by absolutely anyone who has known the quiet madness and claustrophobic happiness of the interior, especially mothers who also long for a life of literature. But this novel absolutely needs to be read by everyone else as well. Oh Olga Ravn, always inventing new forms, you are a genius, how do you do it?' - Kate Zambreno; 'My Work is ferocious, horrific, elegant, insightful, irreverent, and funny. Can a woman still be a person after motherhood? Of course not, Ravn argues, or rather, admits. And in prose, poems, and journal entries, she documents all the absurdity and repulsiveness of growing a creature in your body and then raising it. It is a magnificent and satisfying meditation. One of the most honest and revelatory works of fiction about motherhood I have ever read. Ravn's writing is ecstatic, philosophical, and addictive.' - Heather O'Neill
Awards
Winner of Politiken Literature Prize 2022.
Book Information
ISBN 9781915267177
Author Olga Ravn
Format Hardback
Page Count 432
Imprint Lolli Editions
Publisher Lolli Editions
A TIME MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF AUTUMN 2023 WINNER OF THE POLITIKEN LITERATURE PRIZE
About the Author
OLGA RAVN (b. 1986) is one of Denmark's most celebrated contemporary authors. Her novel The Employees, translated by Martin Aitken, was nominated for numerous prizes, including the International Booker Prize and the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. TIME Magazine named THE EMPLOYEES one of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2022. MY WORK won the Politiken Literature Prize in 2020. In collaboration with Danish publisher Gyldendal, Ravn edited a selection of Tove Ditlevsen's texts and books that relaunched Ditlevsen's readership worldwide. She has also worked as a critic, teacher, and translator. Ravn lives in Copenhagen. SOPHIA HERSI SMITH and JENNIFER RUSSELL are translators living in Copenhagen. They received an American-Scandinavian Foundation Award for their co-translation of Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild's All the Birds in the Sky in 2020. Their translations have appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Asymptote, EuropeNow, Poetry International, and on stage.
Reviews
'This novel from Olga Ravn, this new golden notebook, needs to be read by absolutely anyone who has known the quiet madness and claustrophobic happiness of the interior, especially mothers who also long for a life of literature. But this novel absolutely needs to be read by everyone else as well. Oh Olga Ravn, always inventing new forms, you are a genius, how do you do it?' - Kate Zambreno; 'My Work is ferocious, horrific, elegant, insightful, irreverent, and funny. Can a woman still be a person after motherhood? Of course not, Ravn argues, or rather, admits. And in prose, poems, and journal entries, she documents all the absurdity and repulsiveness of growing a creature in your body and then raising it. It is a magnificent and satisfying meditation. One of the most honest and revelatory works of fiction about motherhood I have ever read. Ravn's writing is ecstatic, philosophical, and addictive.' - Heather O'Neill
Awards
Winner of Politiken Literature Prize 2022.
Book Information
ISBN 9781915267177
Author Olga Ravn
Format Hardback
Page Count 432
Imprint Lolli Editions
Publisher Lolli Editions
