Author Conversation - Iben Mondrup

Name: Author Conversation - Iben Mondrup
Start: 2026-09-23T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-23T21:30:00+02:00
Location: LiteraturHaus

took place · 23 Sep 2026

LiteraturHaus, Copenhagen

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Foto: Christian Ursilva from København, Danmark · CC BY-SA 4.0

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LiteraturHaus and SIND København present an author conversation with Iben Mondrup, an artist educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts who grew up in Greenland. The conversation takes place in LiteraturHaus' basement.

About the venue: LiteraturHaus

LiteraturHaus opened in 2005 inside the former Bethania Kirke, a Methodist church from 1892 on Nørrebro - making it Scandinavia's first literary house. The programme runs from author evenings, poetry readings and lectures to concerts and cross-disciplinary performances. The main hall seats 150 and the café 50; both spaces are available for hire for cultural and private events.

Møllegade 7, 2200 København N Get directions

About: Iben Mondrup

Novelist and visual artist Iben Mondrup grew up in Greenland and has made the darker chapters of Danish-Greenlandic history central to her writing. With nine novels to her name - including the award-winning Godhavn and the recent Hvordan kan vi - she gives talks on her authorship and her childhood under Danish modernisation policy in Greenland.

DR Romanprisen 2015 for Godhavn

published novels (2009-2025)

reviews of Hvordan kan vi i danske medier

What's new

2025-10
Iben Mondrup published in October 2025 the novel Hvordan kan vi at Politikens Forlag - an autofictional novel of over 400 pages, spanning from 1978 to 2025.
2025-10
Weekendavisen called Hvordan kan vi 'next level autofiction', while Politiken described it as 'totally uncompromising'.
2026-02
In February 2026 Iben Mondrup held an author lecture at Tårnby Hovedbibliotek about the creation of Hvordan kan vi.

Tracks

GodhavnNovel from 2014, popular breakthrough - won DR Romanprisen 2015

TabitaFirst part of the Tabita trilogy (2020), nominated for Læsernes Bogpris

VittuSecond novel in the trilogy (2022), about Greenlandic adoption and abuse

BjørnConclusion of the Tabita trilogy (2023)

Hvordan kan viLatest novel (October 2025), autofictional and highly reviewed

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