In April, we will be staying with the Nordic Literary Salon Online in Norway. With translator Barbora Grečnerová we will talk about the novel by Norwegian author Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead, published by Argo publishing house in 2025.
You can watch the live stream on Thursday April 20th, 2025 from 20:00 on the Scandinavian House Facebook page. The recording will later be made available on our YouTube Channel.
In Czech
About the book: ‘To mother is to murder, or close enough’, thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She’s recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective of her art. The subject of her work is motherhood and some of her more controversial paintings have brought about a dramatic rift between parent and child. This new proximity, after decades of acrimonious absence, set both women on edge, and before too long Johanna finds her mother stalking her thoughts, and Johanna starts stalking her mother’s house.
The partner of Nordic literary salon online is Czech Translators of the North – an association that brings together translators of fiction from Northern languages to Czech. The event is part of the Scandinavian House’s year-long project Nordic Literature in the Heart of Europe 2025. It is supported by the City of Prague and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
