Høgni Mohr
Høgni Mohr (born in Tórshavn 8 October 1968) is a Faroese author and journalist. His book Fractura Nasi was the best selling book in 2017 throughout the Faroe Islands. Fractura Nasi was translated into Danish 2019 by Kirsten Brix and published by Amanda Books. Danish title: Rejse for livet. The novel was sold to movie production in 2018. Career Mohr has worked for newspapers in the Faroes and has been published in Danish and Icelandic national newspapers. He spent several years working as a radio and TV reporter with Faroese national broadcaster Kringvarp Føroya. He has also worked for the BBC and Al Jazeera and has hosted nature programmes for Vice Media, as well as being a correspondent to the Huffington Post. His literary works are published in Faroese and Danish. Mohr’s signature work, Saga JAM, 2022 Saga JAM, a novelised biography about Mohr’s old friend Jan-Allan Müller, sparked a heated debate in the Faroes after its publication in September 2022. “The book sent ripples through our small puddle,” Ingi Rasmussen, the culture editor of Faroese national broadcaster KvF, said at the time. "Saga JAM is about the frantic life of footballer turned businessman Jan-Allan Müller. It goes into details based on the author’s talks with Jan-Allan and covers experiences from his childhood to the point where he is sentenced for financial fraud and towards the end includes the death of his father.” Shortly after the book was published, Jan-Allan issued the following statement: “Last week, Høgni Mohr published Saga JAM. The author describes the book as a biographical novel about me. I want to state, in the strongest possible terms, that I distance myself from the contents of this book.” In response to Müller’s statement, Mohr told KvF: "(...) I wrote the book because I am an author." In a subsequent radio interview, the author said: "Regarding the relationship I have with the Jan-Allan you mention – the real person – in the context of Saga JAM, this is something I would rather keep to myself. But I will say that this book has not changed my relationship with the real person. It is not my business as an author to expose persons or disclose intimate stories. I have no ideals. I have no specific objectives, and I’m not promoting any particular way of living. I feel no need to promote anything. I am not trying to achieve anything. All I want with my writing is to extract some building blocks from reality and weave them into my personal style of poetry. My hope is that this turns into art that transcends the constraints of the material world and the social considerations that are represented in Faroese literature.” Literary scholar Lydia Didriksen described the book and the strong social media reactions to it thus: "What is causing all the rage is that some people know Jan-Allan Müller – the real person, not the fictionalised version portrayed in the book. Many of these people haven’t even read the book. These