Important Shipping Notice: Due to the ongoing Canada Post strike, delivery times may be longer than usual. Where possible, we’ll use alternative shipping methods to help get your order to you sooner. We appreciate your patience and understanding as your order makes its way to you.

A note to US-based customers: All Lit Up is pausing print orders to the USA until further notice. Read more

About The Author

Karen Fastrup

KAREN FASTRUP is the author of several novels, including Beloved of My Twenty-seven Senses. Her book Hunger Heart, originally published in Denmark in 2018, was shortlisted for the DR’s Novel Prize in 2019. Femina Magazine named Fastrup one of the seven most remarkable women in Denmark in 2019, and the year’s “Taboo Breaker” for the awareness Hunger Heart created around mental illness. Fastrup has also translated more than fifty novels into Danish by such notable authors as Sally Rooney, Karl Ove Knausgård, August Strindberg, Linn Ullmann, Vigdis Hjorth, and Per Petterson. Fastrup lives in Copenhagen.

Books by Karen Fastrup