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FOREIGN RIGHTS CATALOGUE 2017 INTRODUCTION 2 PUBLISHERS & BOOKSHOPS 4 INTRODUCTION NEW NOVEL COMPETITION 5 FarLit – an abbreviation of Faroese Literature – is a cross-organisational SELECTED WORKS 6 project promoting contemporary Faroese literature on the international book market. The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture. RECENTLY SOLD 30 BOOK PUBLICATIONS: 2012-2017 32 Since the birth of FarLit in 2012 one of the production grants, recently sold works, artist main activity is to attend book fairs as they are residencies, the Faroese Book Festival, and AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS 36 an excellent platform for introducing Faroese Summer Institute 2018 is included. literature. Thus, we attend the London Book Fair in a joint stand with our NordLit partners, and Enjoy the read! BOOKS WITH THE FAROE ISLANDS AS TOPIC & LOCATION 38 attend Gothenburg and Franfurt Book Fairs with our own stand. Kind regards, FAROESE BOOK FESTIVAL 25 - 26 NOVEMBER 39 This catalogue presents a wide range of contemporary works and authors selected CONTENT by a literary committée, and a list of book SUMMER INSTITUTE IN FAROESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE 2018 40 publications from 2012 to 2017. Furthermore, Urd Johannesen other relevant information on translation and Literary Coordinator ARTIST RESIDENCIES 41 NORDIC TRANSLATION GRANT 42 NORDIC ECOLABEL 541 705 PUBLISHERS BOOKSHOPS CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING Bókadeild Føroya Lærarafelags Nám Pedda við Steingøta 9 Hoyvíksvegur 72 NEW NOVEL FO-100 Tórshavn FO-100 Tórshavn www.bfl.fo www.nam.fo HNJ HNJ is the old and cosy book- FICTION, NON-FICTION ACADEMIC PUBLISHING shop right in the center of & POETRY Fróðskapur - Tórshavn with a great book Sprotin Faroe University Press selection and a café as part of Hornavegur 12 Fróðskaparsetur Føroya the shop. COMPETITION FO-350 Vestmanna J.C. Svabos gøta 14 Buy books online: Together with Faroese publisher SPROTIN, www.sprotin.fo FO-100 Tórshavn www.bokhandil.fo www.setur.fo/frodskapur the Bookshop Association in the Faroe Islands Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins has issued a new novel competition www.ms.fo ART BOOKS Steinprent This is the second time the Bookshop Association issues a competition; Stiðin Skálatrøð 16 the first one was issued in November 2014 in conjunction with the Hornavegur 16 FO-100 Tórshavn Book Festival held at the Nordic House in Torshavn. The winner of the FO-100 Tórshavn www.steinprent.com RIT & RÁK first competition was author Marjun Syderbø Kjelnæs whose novel Email: [email protected] Rit & Rák Bookshop is located “Óendaliga vera” was published in June 2016. The criteria was to Listasavn Føroya in the shopping centre SMS write a contemporary story located in the Faroe Islands. However, the Forlagið Eksil Gundadalsvegur 9 in Torshavn and offers a criteria for the new competition is somewhat leaner in that there are Kronprinsessgade 37, 1.tv. FO-100 Tórshavn comprehensive selection of no restictions on time or location, the only criteria are that it has to 1306 København K www.art.fo Faroese literature in translation. be written in Faroese, be a least 150 pages of 2000 signs, and not be www.forlagideksil.blogspot.com Buy books online: published previously. Gramar www.ritograk.fo Bergsvegur 4 & 6 FO-100 Tórshavn The deadline for handing in manuscripts is 1 September 2018 and the The winner of the first competition was author www.gramar.fo winner is awarded 100,000 DKK and a publishing deal with SPROTIN. Marjun Syderbø Kjelnæs 4 5 SELECTED WORKS: FICTION EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK I SEE YOU BETTER The title of Carl Jóhan protagonist is called Benedikt IN THE DARK Jensen’s novel Eg síggi teg Einarsson, and the story betur í myrkri is a quote from begins on 25 August 1939 Four days later. Emily Dickinson’s poem I see aboard the S/S Lyra, which is A short woman turned away. Bene- thee better – in the Dark. The on its way north from Bergen. dict remained standing outside in the paradox of this line points to The novel is fragmentary shadow of number 47 Gottscheden- the novel’s dual levels in both in composition and jumps straße. The woman turned her cheek to plot and concept. between time periods, him; it had a blueish shadow. The inspiration for the sometimes by way of realistic Benedict‘s upper body shivered, a fine novel’s protagonist is flashbacks, sometimes web of sweat broke out between his skin the Icelandic poet Einar by way of more dreamlike and undershirt. Benediktsson (1864- descriptions. Yet the central The woman made a subtle motion 1940), who not only was a anchoring point is a moment of her hand towards the entrance hall. poet but also had a great on the Lyra’s deck. Though he couldn‘t see her eyes, their national vision of what he The language of the novel is mottled-green look threaded itself into could accomplish for the a poetic language entirely the his brain. modernisation of Iceland. In author’s own. A work of art in Still he hesitated. He adjusted him- this fictional treatment the itself. self; the inseam of his pants was too tight and constricted his member. He cursed Jankel’s tailor to himself. CARL JÓHAN JENSEN: And now, the woman had the back of Somehow, it didn‘t seem like they the light came from, whether it streamed her head to him. were supposed to stand like that. up from below, or breathed down from Her hair had a boyish cut. And he could see it all – above. The layout was of a simple de- Her shoulders were narrow. He wouldn’t emerge from this house sign, sparsely lit, sparsely decorated. On EG SÍGGI TEG Benedict relented. Let the mystique on Gottschedenstraße the same man. every surface, and from floor to ceiling, of her coldly-polite attitude drag him No chance of that. an observer could perceive imminent along those eye-spun threads into the And there he was, standing in the en- nuances of blue, excepting the doors. slight wind of the entrance hall, into a trance hall, hat in his hand. His sweat The floor had tiles and the cobalt tiles BETUR Í MYRKRI haphazard connection of chance and cooled between his skin and undershirt. along the baseboard which became consequences. The crotch of his pants was too tight. lighter near the center and there was a Carl Jóhan Jensen, born in 1957, is one of the most original Carl Jóhan Jensen has Just as he crossed the threshold, he The woman locked the street door border, one foot wide, on each side of and provocative writers on the Faroese literary scene today. been awarded The M.A. cast another sidelong glance down behind him. other dark-blue tiles laid aslant, a little Jacobsen Award in 1989, He made his debut in 1977, and has published works of poetry, along the street, at the vans and soldiers Locked it. bigger than the other ones. Between the 2006 and 2015, and is a positioned beneath the gate, motionless The space inside had an atmosphere borders, there was a wide stretch of blue- novels and essays. His works have been translated and five-time nominee for the behind their machine guns, even though of a spacious summer night with blueing ish-white, just like the back of a glacier published in literary journals in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Nordic Council Literary the photographer with his camera and hills, myopic bridges and cliffs, and seen from a distance. Netherlands, Germany and the USA. Prize. tripod was no-where to be seen. unruffled beaches. Hard to tell where Translated by Marita Thomsen 6 7 SELECTED WORKS: FICTION EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK kmd-foto MARJUN S KJELNÆS: ÓENDALIG VERA ÓENDALIGA VERA Translated by Marita Thomsen (leon) actually look for it, for me that The Postman Now I am nothing, not would have meant making a Marjun S. Kjelnæs, born in 1974, is a decision about stepping back in trained nurse, but has been working as In the beginning I wrote my really. I am a postman, time, and good rarely comes of a full-time writer for some years. With a name in small letters: leon. such decisions. But when I, by number of 1st place wins in short story And then I just kept on doing who carries messages to chance, saw that somebody had competitions, Marjun S. Kjelnæs was it. It was easier for everyone, I posted the song to their profile, awarded a 3-year grant from the Faroese think. Easier to distinguish me people. I accepted that the decision had from Him: Leon the good, the been made for me. Now I listen cultural fund in 2009. mild, the fair. He, who was my to it on my phone, a tune from grandfather, whom I loved the times gone by. I remember the Predominantly known for her works in way so many others loved Him. For a for? And then all the things you have lyrics. The melody is dreadful, but I children’s and Young Adults literature, long time. The way one tends to love no clue about. I don’t even guess, just have always paid more attention to Kjelnæs is also an author of a number heroes and saints. A lot could be said trudge on in the dark, I don’t really feel lyrics than to music. Have rarely ever of poetry collections and short stories about my grandfather, and still is, but anything anymore, I don’t want to know taken any notice of the whole picture and published her first play “Tóm by others, not me. I remember granddad anything either. What difference is it to of anything.