My Blue Chair

The main character does not identify with her family and feels so invisible that she makes a virtue of necessity and starts training how to disappear – until she is found by a friend and finds herself in creativity. Recipient of the Danish Arts Foundation laudation for outstanding works of literature: “The book immerses itself incredibly well in the child’s universe and talks on the child’s terms about complex emotions and how to come to terms with them. The visual expression and the story weave together into a convincing and poetic whole.”

Themes: identity / creativity / family / visibility