“Whether taking someone to hunt a buffalo or writing a story, to me it is about chasing the core, blood buzzing at the fingertips with acuteness”
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Professional Hunter
I work as a professional hunter in Tanzania, and have done so for a quarter of a century. I offer hunting safaris in some of the absolute top areas of Africa. The vastness of these remote, completely wild and unfenced areas, are the key to a spectacular adventure. We walk and track a lot. And we only target carefully selected animals, which makes for a fair and sustainable hunt.
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Author
My latest book ‘I Merubjergets Regnskygge’ is a collection of letters for my daughter. Having written it while I expected her and for two years after her birth, it is an introduction to this world for someone about to properly arrive in it. It is a book about our life, death, being a girl and thoughts on what it is to be a human amongst the rest of the creatures here on earth.
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Other Work
Throughout the years, I have taken on several exciting projects and adventures. My work as an author, hunter and conservationist provides me with a unique opportunity to travel the world giving talks and interviews, while also working on my passion for storytelling through documentary work.
“Where I wrote four of my books.
Oldonyo Sambu, northern Tanzania.”
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I Merubjergets Regnskygge.
So far published in Danish and English.
English title: All will be well.
when Natasha Illum Berg became pregnant, she started writing letters to her unborn daughter. These letters span over three years as an introduction to our world with all of its beauty and horror. It is also a testament to a generational shift, with Natasha standing halfway between her father taking his last farewells while her child takes her first victorious steps.
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Vildnis
So far published in Danish and Swedish
After having arranged for the funeral of a professional hunter in Tanzania, the well heeled british couple, Beatrice and Thomas, end up getting lost. Lost in their marriage and lost in the bush they are forced to ask themselves what they really want in life. It is a novel about two peoples relationship with each other as much as it is about their individual relationship with nature.
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Med hensyn til Harry
So far published in Danish and English.
English title: Looking at Harry and other stories
iFrom New York to Tanzania, these short stories are all about “the other side of the coin”. An unkind aid-worker, a judge who becomes immoral, a terrorist who is likeable, a man who has to sit next to his best friends body for two days, are just a few of the characters presented in these six stories. Each story shines an uncomfortable light upon some of the lies we tell ourselves when it comes to simply recognising good from bad.
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Abens Hjerte
So far published in Danish.
In an attempt to get away from his unrequieted love and hurt pride the bullfighter, Diego, decides to go to Tanzania to fight an African buffalo. Meanwhile, Masha, his former girlfriend writes letters to him that he never receives.
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Te i den blå sofa
So far published in English, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, French.
Title in English: Tea on the blue sofa.
This autobiographical work is a collections of letters Natasha Illum Berg wrote to her lover, after he was killed outside her home in Nairobi.
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Rivers of Red Earth
So far published in Danish, Swedish, German, Italian, Dutch, Czech.
Autobiographical stories about Natasha’s journey to becoming Tanzanias only female professional hunter. The stories are about her lonely struggles in what is a fiercely male dominated world and of a deep passion for nature that relentlessly keeps her going despite anything her surroundings say or do.
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