Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Cecilie Lind (1991) studied at The Danish Academy of Creative Writing, and debuted in 2010 with THE WOLF ATE MY EYELINER. She is the author of nine novels and poetry collections, including the verse novel MY CHILD, which was shortlisted for Politiken’s Literature Prize. In 2020 she was awarded The Native Language Prize (Modersmål-Prisen) for her body of work. GIRLBEAST was awarded The Critics Prize (Kritikerprisen) in 2022. She lives in Copenhagen. Website: cecilielindskriver.dk
Hazel Evans (1994) is an artist, writer and literary translator based in Aarhus. She is the author of MAD ABOUT COPENHAGEN and creator of the campaign TALK DANISH TO ME. She was selected as the 2022/23 emerging translator for Danish to English at the National Centre for Writing in the UK for her sample translation of THE FATHERSHIP, and her forthcoming debut translation, INTO A STAR by Puk Qvortrup, was published by Hamish Hamilton in 2023.
Everything is mine and is taken from me. That’s what it means to be a girl.
Highly acclaimed in Denmark, Girlbeast is a fearless, unsettling, and poetic reimagining of the Lolita narrative, where power shifts unpredictably, and desire and coercion become indistinguishable. In a world that fetishises girlhood, it asks whether a girl be blamed for internalising the roles imposed upon her? Can she wield her youth as power in a system designed to render her powerless?
With sharp, fast-paced prose and an addictive plot, Cecilie Lind crafts a daring examination of female agency, sexuality, and the complexities of consent. The novel evokes the idea of the girl as animal – a creature conditioned to be both docile pet and wild beast, torn between submission and rebellion, innocence and desire.
Brave, provocative, and unflinching, Girlbeast is a gripping, vital novel for our times.
'Girlbeast is a fever dream of a novel that put a knot in my stomach. A provocative, vulgar yet tender fable about the uneasy ruin of girlhood.' – Lucy Rose
The hotly anticipated translation of the winner of the Danish Critics Prize and the Native Language Prize
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Cecilie Lind (1991) studied at The Danish Academy of Creative Writing, and debuted in 2010 with THE WOLF ATE MY EYELINER. She is the author of nine novels and poetry collections, including the verse novel MY CHILD, which was shortlisted for Politiken’s Literature Prize. In 2020 she was awarded The Native Language Prize (Modersmål-Prisen) for her body of work. GIRLBEAST was awarded The Critics Prize (Kritikerprisen) in 2022. She lives in Copenhagen. Website: cecilielindskriver.dk
Hazel Evans (1994) is an artist, writer and literary translator based in Aarhus. She is the author of MAD ABOUT COPENHAGEN and creator of the campaign TALK DANISH TO ME. She was selected as the 2022/23 emerging translator for Danish to English at the National Centre for Writing in the UK for her sample translation of THE FATHERSHIP, and her forthcoming debut translation, INTO A STAR by Puk Qvortrup, was published by Hamish Hamilton in 2023.