Edy Poppy
Edy Poppy (b. 1975), grew up on a farm in Bø, Telemark, Norway. She moved to Montpellier when she was 17, and spent several years in France, then London, where she worked with art, fashion, film and writing. In 2005 she published her first novel Anatomy.Monotony., which was translated into Italian, Finnish, German, Polish and American. It won the contest for best love story by Gyldendal. After seven years in London, Poppy moved to Berlin and later on spent serveral month in Buenos Aires, Lipari, Reykjavik and Rio.
In 2011 she published the short story collection Coming.Apart. Its opening story, "Dungeness" was selected by the American publishing house Dalkey Archive Press (also the publisher of her novel), to be part of their prestigious and widely distributed anthology Best European Fiction 2015. They will also be publishing Poppy's short story collection soon.
Edy Poppy is now based at Nesodden (outside Oslo), working on several theatre plays and her next novel.
During the launch of her novel Anatomy. Monotony. in the US and the UK, Edy Poppy talked with the American-Norwegian writer Siri Hustvedt about her novel at the Norwegian Consulate in New York.
You can read the conversation on lithub.
