Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen, born in 1980, is an acclaimed author and unique voice on the Danish literary scene. She debuted in 2016 with the novel Ø(Island), a tale of exile and homecoming, emigration and immigration, split across three generations of a Faroe Islands family. Island was shortlisted for Bogforum’s Debutant Prize, selected to represent Danish literature at the European First Novel Festival in Budapest, and in 2019 Jacobsen won the international literature prize MARetica. Island has been published to great critical acclaim in French, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian - where it became an instant bestseller - and is forthcoming in the UK and US by Pushkin Press this summer.
Her 2018 book, The Sea Letters, is an illustrated gem, equal parts poetic, philosophical and eco-critical. Hailed as a hydro-feminist manifesto of our time, The Sea Letters chronicles an exchange of letters between two sisters, the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, who write to each other about the universe, life on earth, climate change and the big plan of the world’s oceans and seas to unite as one.
Inspired by the Greek myth of Daphne, Jacobsen’s forthcoming triptych novel The Daphne Syndrome will delve into themes of transformation, assault, the body and nature and is set for publication in September 2021.
