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    Helle Helle

    Helle Helle was born in Denmark in 1965. She 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 has received numerous awards, including The Critics' Prize and The Golden Laurel. She is one of Scandinavia’s foremost writers, with a career spanning three dacades, from her debut Example of Life (1993) to her most recent novel Hey Hafni, forthcoming from New Directions in the fall of 2027. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages.

    Helle Helle

    Helle Helle was born in Denmark in 1965. She 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 has received numerous awards, including The Critics' Prize and The Golden Laurel. She is one of Scandinavia’s foremost writers, with a career spanning three dacades, from her debut Example of Life (1993) to her most recent novel Hey Hafni, forthcoming from New Directions in the fall of 2027. Her books have been translated into twenty-four languages.

    Books by Helle Helle

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      Helle Helle, Martin Aitken

      Paperback, 2026

      From one of Scandinavia’s finest and best-loved novelists comes a startlingly intimate and powerful portrait about the fragile, yet irrevocable bond between a young girl and her dying mother

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      Helle Helle, Martin Aitken

      E Book

      From one of Scandinavia’s finest and best-loved novelists comes a startlingly intimate and powerful portrait about the fragile, yet irrevocable bond between a young girl and her dying mother

    • Hafni Says

      Helle Helle, Martin Aitken

      Paperback, 2026

      A marvelously inventive road-trip novel, told as one long conversation in the aftermath of a capsized marriage

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