Award ceremony: the Montana Literature Prize 2021
Meet a handful of today's most interesting authors at a festive awards ceremony in the Queen's Hall.
Join us for the awards ceremony, a celebration of the best of Danish literature just now.
The host of the night is the daily paper, Informations literature editor Peter Nielsen. Together with the authors, he will present this year's - very different - works. Each of the authors has made a remarkable contribution to literature in the past year.
And then, of course, the winner of the year will be revealed! The winner will be interviewed on stage by Peter Nielsen.
Meet the nominees in the Queen's Hall
Josefine Klougart: Alt dette kunne du få
Solvej Balle: Om udregning af rumfang III
Emeli Bergman: På undersiden af dagen
Helle Helle: BOB
Christina Hesselholdt: Feje blade sammen op mod vinden
Glenn Bech: Farskibet
Dorthe Nors og Henrik Saxgren: En linje i verden
Rakel Haslund-Gjerrild: Adam i Paradis
The Montana Literature Prize
Since 2006, the Montana Literature Prize has been awarded to a current Danish author "who is innovative within his or her genre or who manages to present reality in a new and surprising way". The prize comes with DKK 100,000 sponsored by Montana.
Previous winners include notable authors such as Mette Moestrup, Asta Olivia Nordenhof, Jonas Eika, Hanne Højgaard Viemose and most recently Pernille Ipsen, who received the award in 2020.
The prize committee
The prize committee consists of eight critics: Kamilla Löfström, Tue Andersen Nexø, Bodil Skovgaard Nielsen, Erik Skyum-Nielsen, Lone Nikolajsen, Anita Brask Rasmussen, Thomas Thurah and Peter Nielsen.
NB. Helle Helle will not participate.
The award ceremony is a collaboration between the Royal Danish Library, Montana and Dagbladet Information.
