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My work
A radical, funny, and relentlessly honest novel by the award-winning author of The Employees that led to legislative changes regarding maternity in Denmark.
After giving birth, Anna feels lost. She moves with her family to the unfamiliar, snow-covered city of Stockholm. Overwhelmed by the unaccustomed anxiety of motherhood, she obsessively consumes news and makes online purchases she cannot afford. To keep from sinking deeper into depression, she forces herself to read and write, striving to strike a balance between her role as a mother and her identity as a writer.
A remarkably courageous work about the foundational experience of childbirth, uniquely blending prose, essays, poetry, memoirs, and letters to explore the fragile and complex relationship between individuality and family—between motherhood and artistic creation.
Author:
Olga Ravn
Edited by:
Eirini Christopoulou
Translation:
Leo Kalovyrnas
Cover:
Yannis Ermeidis
Date of publication:
26/10/2026
Pages:
480
Dimensions:
13,3 Χ 20,5 εκ.
ISBN:
978-960-572-872-4
Publication:
2026
Categories:
Literature, eBooks, Foreign Literature
Olga Ravn
Olga Ravn was born in Denmark in 1986. She is an author, poet, and literary critic. Her novel The Employees (Ikaros, 2025) was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021 and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, and longlisted for the National Book Award and the Dublin Literary Award, while having been translated into 25 countries. Her novel My Work(Ikaros, 2026) won the Politikens Literature Prize 2021 and led to legislative changes regarding maternity leave in Denmark. Her new book, Voksbarnet (The Wax Child, 2023), based on a series of real 17th-century witch trials, was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026.
