Høgni Mohr

Høgni Mohr (born 8 October 1968 in Tórshavn) is a Faroese author and journalist. His book Fractura Nasi was the best-selling book in the Faroe Islands in 2017. 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.

Saga JAM, wrote a novelised biography about Mohr’s old friend Jan-Allan Müller, which was published in September 2022. The book won the Readers Price in 2024.