Awards

• Winner of Bogforums Debutantpris 2017

Overview

On her first day of work as a teacher, a young woman meets a married man on the train. They begin an affair, a ride which proves as jolting as her transition into the new job and the authority that comes along with it. New Passengers is as audacious as it is enthralling, as wry as it is moving. Eliciting the speed of an express train and the immediacy of a text message, every line shimmers with quick-witted insight as Hoeg casts a critical eye on the social mores that shape our lives. Winner of the Bogforum's Debutantpris, the prize awarded each year for Denmark's best fiction debut, the novel was adapted for the stage at the Royal Danish Theatre.

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A brilliantly original novel in verse, New Passengers tells the story, taut and well-crafted, of a young woman's disorientation and search for her adult self. . . In his masterful translation, Misha Hoekstra has captured the complex shifts and nuances of Tine Hoeg's unique poetic style, her sense of timing, and her humor, bringing to English one of Denmark's most compelling new voices. - PEN America

"""A brilliantly original novel in verse, New Passengers tells the story, taut and well-crafted, of a young woman's disorientation and search for her adult self. . . In his masterful translation, Misha Hoekstra has captured the complex shifts and nuances of Tine Hoeg's unique poetic style, her sense of timing, and her humor, bringing to English one of Denmark's most compelling new voices."" - PEN America"

Author Information

TINE HOEG (b. 1985) is a Danish author. Her novel New Passengers won Bogforum's Debutantpris, the prize awarded each year for the best literary debut published in Denmark. Hoeg's own adaptation of the novel has been staged at the Royal Danish Theatre. She lives in Copenhagen. MISHA HOEKSTRA has translated numerous Danish authors, including Hans Christian Andersen and Maren Uthaug. In 2017, he received the Danish Translation Prize, and his translation of Dorthe Nors's Mirror, Shoulder, Signal was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.

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