The Woman and the Ape
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Adam Burden is approaching the culmination of his life’s ambitions: domestic bliss in the form of his devoted wife, Madelaine; professional success in the promised appointment to run a radically revamped London Zoo; and (illegal) possession of “a highly intelligent anthropoid ape”. But if Adam has plans, so do Madelaine and Erasmus, the ape. An elopement takes place and the search that follows is not merely for a missing woman and an anthropoid. Peter Høeg was born in 1957 and published his first novel in 1988. His best known book is Miss Smilla’s Feelings for Snow.
Original title in Danish Kvinden og aben published by Rosinante (1996)
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Barbara
J. Haveland
Barbara J. Haveland is a Scottish literary translator, based in Copenhagen. She translates fiction, poetry and drama from Danish and Norwegian to English. She has translated works by many leading Danish and Norwegian writers, both classic and contemporary, including Henrik Ibsen, Peter Høeg, Linn Ullmann and Carl Frode Tiller. Her English-language translation of On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025.
Barbara J. Haveland is a Scottish literary translator, based in Copenhagen. She translates fiction, poetry and drama from Danish and Norwegian to English. She has translated works by many leading Danish and Norwegian writers, both classic and contemporary, including Henrik Ibsen, Peter Høeg, Linn Ullmann and Carl Frode Tiller. Her English-language translation of On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025.