Hafni says

Helle Helle is a graduate of the Danish Academy of Creative Writing and the author of a number of novels, as well as two collections of short stories. She is one of Scandinavia’s most original writers, with a career spanning three decades, from her debut Example of Life (1993) to her most recent novel, Hafni Says, published to rave reviews in 2023. Her books have been translated into 22 languages.Martin Aitken is an acclaimed translator of Scandinavian literature, including works by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Kim Leine, Hanne Ørstavik and Olga Ravn. He has won the PEN America Translation Prize and the National Translation Award in Prose. His translations have appeared on the shortlists of the DUBLIN Literary Award, the US National Book Awards, and the International Booker Prize.

'Hafni Says is a radically experimental and completely unbridled book. It’s a novel about crisis and downfall, about the will to live, alienation, freedom, guilt and shame, and the heavy gaze of expectation. Simply put, it’s a novel about existence…Helle Helle has long proven that her authorship can’t be dismissed in a subordinate clause. Several of her novels already stand as masterpieces in Danish literature. Hafni Says is no exception.'