Like many of her works which draw on her experience of life in Greenland and deal with family conflicts, Godhavn won the DR Romanprisen [da] (Danmarks Radio's novel prize) in 2015.

[1][2][3] Born in Copenhagen on 26 September 1969,[4] Iben Mondrup is the daughter of the schoolteachers Ebbe and Kirsten Mortensen.

[3] Initially she attended kindergarten with local Greenlandic children but then started school in a Danish-speaking class with just one other pupil, a boy from Denmark.

Vi er brødre (2018) shows how two brothers develop in completely different directions after World War II.

[1][5] Equally successful, the second installment, Vittu (2022), shows what sentiments of love and betrayal can be experienced by adopted children.