Eika tells us why he challenged himself to write unplanned and without boundaries.
Jonas Eika
After the Sun, his second book, has confirmed Jonas Eika as one of Denmark’s most exciting writers
Eika was born in 1991 in Aarhus, Denmark. His debut novel, Marie House Warehouse, was awarded the Bodil & Jørgen Munch-Christensen Prize for emerging Danish writers in 2016. After the Sun was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2019, as well as the Michael Strunge Prize, the Montana Prize for Fiction, and the Blixen Literary Award. Eika currently lives in Copenhagen.
All nominated books
With irrepressible urgency, Eika’s astonishing fiction juxtaposes startling beauty with grotesquery, and balances the hyper-realistic with the fantastical
