Troll

Rasmus Daugbjerg's Troll combines a beautifully old-fashioned fairy tale with the sort of conceptual minimalism that can only grow in Northern European soil. The troll's tale is timeless and reads as smoothly as a drink of water, as must be the case for any grand fairy-tale saga

Vladimir Sorokin

Rasmus Daugbjerg achieves what all my favourite authors do: he is able to step outside of humanity and help us look at ourselves through a strange and wonderful window. Troll is an essential and enchanting contemporary fable

Camilla Grudova

Hallucinatory, dark and hypnotic, Troll is plucked straight from the world of dreams. Animated by a thrilling, palpable anger, the novel is a moving elegy for the natural world – one that revels in the wild, haunted beauty of the forest

Max Lury

Rasmus Daugbjerg is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Danish literature. His dreamlike, poetic novels breathe new life into old myths and legends

Louisiana Literature

Rasmus Daugbjerg's novels create a powerful and strange world that is both ancient and hypermodern, archaic and innovative. The language is mysterious, ghostly, dreamy and surreal, all done with a unique tone that both baffles and surprises

Mare Kandre Prize jury (winner)

A new worldview bursting with forgotten and repressed logic – animistic, fairytale-like, and mythological. In Daugbjerg, the supernatural appears perfectly natural

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