Welcome
Hi! My name is Frida and this is my corner of the web.
I enjoy reading, baking, drinking øl, plants, and words.
In my spare time I help run Ark Books
on Møllegade, Kbh
. I also organize
Lyse Nætter, an annual literary street
also on Møllegade, Kbh
festival.
Writing
♨ FRESH ♨ Here's a short piece of my writing: quote of many colours. published in "Word Vomit", arkcore: Issue 02
Here's another: best day ever. published in "Salad Days", arkcore: Issue 01
Occasionally, I translate Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner.
For pleasure.
Podcasts
Currently co-hosting the Ark Books Talks podcast!
Podcasts episodes I've participated in, at the Ark Audio Book Club
Readings
And here is a list of books I've read over the past few years,
in no particular order.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| The Bricks that Built the Houses | Kae Tempest |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov |
| You Know You Want This | Kristen Roupenian |
| Convenience Store Woman | Sayaka Murata |
| The Vegetarian | Han Kang |
| Notes from the Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| Future Sex | Emily Witt |
| I Love Dick | Chris Kraus |
| Publish and Perish | James Hynes |
| The Hobbit | JRR Tolkien |
| How the Other Half Lives | Jacob A Riis |
| The Communist Manifesto | Marx, Engels |
| Nordkraft | Jakob Ejersbo |
| The Stranger | Albert Camus |
| Intet | Janne Teller |
| Forklædt som nazist | Charlotte Johannsen |
| Doppler | Erlend Loe |
| Geniet | Nils Thorsen |
| L | Erlend Loe |
| Det man skal | Anders Peder Weitze |
| Outline | Rachel Cusk |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi |
| Grief is the Thing With Feathers | Max Porter |
| Leaving the Atocha Station | Ben Lerner |
| The End of Alice | A.M. Holmes |
| The Nose | Nikolai Gogol |
| The Double | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| A Hero of Our Time | Mikhail Lermontov |
| Suicide | Édouard Levé |
| 10:04 | Ben Lerner |
| The Topeka School | Ben Lerner |
| The Hole | Pyun Hye-young |
| Laughter in the Dark | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
| Strange Weather in Tokyo | Hiromi Kawakami |
| Swimming in the Dark | Tomasz Jędrowski |
| Detransition, Baby | Torrey Peters |
| On Connection | Kae Tempest |
| After the Sun | Jonas Eika |
| Dogs of Summer | Andrea Abreu |
| Crimson | Niviaq Korneliussen |
| The Black Spectacles | John Dickson Carr |
| Suddenly at His Residence | Christianna Brand |
| The Summer Book | Tove Jansson |
| Heart of a Dog | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| What You Are Looking For Is in the Library | Michiko Aoyama |
| He Who Whispers | John Dickson Carr |
| Poor Folk | Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| The Moustache | Emmanuel Carrère |
| And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie |
| The Sellout | Paul Beatty |
| Sleeping Murder | Agatha Christie |
| Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol |
| Limonov | Emmanuel Carrère |
| Days at the Morisaki Bookshop | Satoshi Yagisawa |
| Bartleby, the Scrivener | Herman Melville |
| The Fatal Eggs | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| Simple Passion | Annie Ernaux |
| The Blind Owl | Sadegh Hedayat |
| Things | Georges Perec |