Animals in Literature III: Merete Pryds Helle on Dogs

Name: Animals in Literature III: Merete Pryds Helle on Dogs
Start: 2026-10-21T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-21T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Vartov

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 · 17:00 — 19:00

Vartov, Copenhagen · 50–250 kr. · ≈ 7–33 €

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Animals in Literature III: Merete Pryds Helle on Dogs · Vartov, Copenhagen

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Animals in Literature III - Merete Pryds Helle: Wednesday 21 October 2026, 17:00–19:00, Vartov, Copenhagen. Tickets cost 50–250 kr.

Author and dog owner Merete Pryds Helle discusses Virginia Woolf's Flush and other dogs in literature. The conversation is recorded simultaneously as an episode of the podcast "The Planetary Library" and takes place in collaboration with the publisher A Mock Book. Host is Kirstine Ersbøll Meyhoff.

About the venue: Vartov

Vartov is a listed building complex from 1725 in Farvergade, just off City Hall Square, originally built as a hospital. N.F.S. Grundtvig served as priest in the adjoining Vartov Church from 1839 until his death in 1872, and Grundtvigsk Forum has owned and run the building since 1947. Today it hosts debates, lectures, communal singing, meetings and conferences, and also contains a library, a podcast studio and a student dormitory.

Farvergade 27, 1463 København K Get directions

About: Merete Pryds Helle

With a body of work spanning formally inventive prose, digital fiction and sweeping family sagas, Merete Pryds Helle ranks among the most versatile writers in contemporary Danish literature. Her latest novel 'Den store åbning' (2024) was nominated for the DR Novel Prize 2025 and praised for weaving archaeology, science and human relationships into a single narrative arc.

Folkets skønhed received twice as many votes as no. 2 at the Politiken Literature Prize 2016

major literature prizes for Folkets skønhed (Politiken Literature Prize, The Golden Laurels, Otto B. Lindhardt Prize)

35+

publications since debut in 1990 across genres

What's new

2025-03
Merete Pryds Helle published in March 2025 the book 'The New Women - Love and Queers 1870-1920' together with historian Rikke Andreassen at Politikens Forlag.
2025-01
'The Great Opening' (2024) was nominated for the DR Novel Prize 2025 as one of six selected novels, with voting among the country's reading clubs until May 2025.
2024-11
The novel 'The Great Opening' was published on 14 November 2024 by Lindhardt and Ringhof and received positive reviews for its blend of science, archaeology and contemporary realism.

Tracks

Folkets skønhedFamily novel from 2016, won Politiken's Literature Prize and The Golden Laurels

Fiske i livets flodNovel from 2000 - her actual literary breakthrough

Den store åbningNovel from November 2024, nominated for DR Romanprisen 2025

BænkenCollection of short stories from 2002, among her most well-known works

NoraNovel from 2019, reimagining of Ibsen's 'A Doll's House'

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