Peter Høgh (b. 1957) is the most famous modern writer in Denmark, and perhaps Scandinavia; the author of five books translated into three dozen languages of the world. “The Woman and the Monkey” (1996) is his latest novel to date, in which the categories of “animal” and “human” this time fall under the merciless and ironic gaze of the author. , will remind the reader of the unforgettable “Smilla and her sense of snow.”