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Farlit Foreign Rights Catalog 2016 F O R E I G N R I G H T S CATALOGUE 2016 BFL · Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins · Sprotin · Fróðskapur · Nám Norðurlandahúsið í Føroyum · Mentamálaráðið · Visit Faroe Islands INTRODUCTION 4 PUBLISHERS 5 SELECTED WORKS 6 RECENTLY SOLD 26 BOOK PUBLICATIONS: 2011-2016 28 AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS 32 BOOKS WITH THE FAROE ISLANDS AS TOPIC & LOCATION 34 FAROESE BOOK FESTIVAL 25-27 NOVEMBER 35 CONTENT SUMMER INSTITUTE IN FAROESE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE 2016 36 ARTIST RESIDENCIES 37 NORDIC TRANSLATION GRANT 38 INTRODUCTION PUBLISHERS FarLit – an abbreviation of Faroese Literature – is a cross-organisational CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS Forlagið Eksil ART BOOKS project promoting contemporary Faroese literature on the international Bókadeild Føroya Lærarafelags Kronprinsessgade 37, 1.tv. Steinprent Pedda við Steingøta 9 1306 København K Skálatrøð 16 book market. The project is supported by the Ministry of Culture, the Nordic FO-100 Tórshavn www.forlagideksil.blogspot.com FO-100 Tórshavn House in the Faroe Islands, Visit Faroe Islands and the major publishing www.bfl.fo www.steinprent.com houses of the Faroe Islands. EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING FICTION, NON-FICTION & POETRY Nám Listasavn Føroya Sprotin Hoyvíksvegur 72 Gundadalsvegur 9 Hornavegur 12 FO-100 Tórshavn FO-100 Tórshavn Since the birth of FarLit in 2012 one of the grants, recently sold works, artist residencies, FO-350 Vestmanna www.nam.fo www.art.fo main activity is to attend book fairs as they are the Faroese Book Festival, and Summer Insti- www.sprotin.fo an excellent platform for introducing Faroese tute 2016 is included. ACADEMIC PUBLISHING Gramar literature. Thus, we attend the London Book Fair Mentunargrunnur Fróðskapur - Bergsvegur 4 & 6 in a joint stand with our NordLit partners, and Enjoy the read! Studentafelagsins Faroe University Press FO-100 Tórshavn attend Gothenburg and Franfurt Book Fairs with Skiftet 7 Fróðskaparsetur Føroya www.gramar.fo our own stand. DK-2990 Nivå J.C. Svabos gøta 14 Kind regards, www.ms.fo FO-100 Tórshavn This catalogue presents a wide range of con- www.setur.fo/frodskapur temporary works and authors selected by a lit- Stiðin erary committée, and a list of book publications Hornavegur 16 from 2011 to 2016. Furthermore, other relevant Urd Johannesen FO-100 Tórshavn information on translation and production Literary Coordinator Email: [email protected] 4 5 SELECTED WORKS: FICTION EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK I SEE YOU BETTER IN THE DARK The title of Carl Jóhan called Benedikt Einarsson, Jensen’s novel Eg síggi teg and the story begins on 25 betur í myrkri is a quote from August 1939 aboard the Four days later. Emily Dickinson’s poem I see S/S Lyra, which is on its way A short woman turned away. Bene- thee better – in the Dark. The north from Bergen. The novel dict remained standing outside in the paradox of this line points to is fragmentary in compo- shadow of number 47 Gottscheden- the novel’s dual levels in both sition and jumps between straße. Te woman turned her cheek to plot and concept. time periods, sometimes by him; it had a blueish shadow. The inspiration for the way of realistic flashbacks, Benedict‘s upper body shivered, a fne novel’s protagonist is the sometimes by way of more web of sweat broke out between his skin Icelandic poet Einar Ben- dreamlike descriptions. Yet and undershirt. ediktsson (1864-1940), who the central anchoring point Te woman made a subtle motion not only was a poet but also is a moment on the Lyra’s of her hand towards the entrance hall. had a great national vision deck. Tough he couldn‘t see her eyes, their of what he could accom- The language of the novel mottled-green look threaded itself into plish for the modernisation is a poetic language entirely NORDIC his brain. of Iceland. In this fictional the author’s own. A work of Still he hesitated. He adjusted him- treatment the protagonist is art in itself. COUNCIL self; the inseam of his pants was too tight and constricted his member. He cursed LITERATURE 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 PRIZE NOMINEE! 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. Te 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 foor 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 Te foor 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. Te crotch of his pants was too tight. lighter near the center and there was a Carl Jóhan Jensen, born in Tórshavn in 1957, is one of the most Carl Jóhan Jensen Just as he crossed the threshold, he Te woman locked the street door border, one foot wide, on each side of original and provocative writers on the Faroese literary scene has been awarded The cast another sidelong glance down behind him. other dark-blue tiles laid aslant, a little M.A. Jacobsen Award today. He made his debut in 1977, and has published works of along the street, at the vans and soldiers Locked it. bigger than the other ones. Between the in 1989 and 2006, and positioned beneath the gate, motionless Te space inside had an atmosphere borders, there was a wide stretch of blue- poetry, novels and essays. His works have been translated and is a five-time nominee 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 for the Nordic Council the photographer with his camera and hills, myopic bridges and clifs, and seen from a distance. Netherlands, Germany and the USA. Literary Prize. tripod was no-where to be seen. unrufed beaches. Hard to tell where 6 7 SELECTED WORKS: FICTION EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK SÓLRÚN MICHELSEN: HINUMEGIN ER MARS BEYOND MARCH Sólrun Michelsen’s first pub- lication, Argjafressar (1994), was a children’s book. Since Life is made of moments. Yes, I The stairs bear witness of When you examine each indi- know. It has been said before. It vidual star more closely, you detect then she has written both chil- is timeworn. But worn shouldn’t a common denominator: dren’s literature, poetry and a rhyme with scorn. Worn wrinkly feet, fitting upstairs and Tey are all in the company of number of short stories. hands are beautiful, when you others. think of all the caresses they have downstairs, a teeming food You also notice that they aren’t given. Te burdens they have where you thought you had made carried. Te stitches they have of life, which has carried the right choice, but lit up in produced. Tey were only ever places where you had little or no idle in twilight at times. someone forth to this day infuence. In 2007, Sólrun Michelsen published A worn staircase is beautiful. Tere are also other moments. her first fictional work for adults, Life has run like a river down Strange cuts out of forgotten Tema við slankum (Dancing with real- the steps and carved its current form. night. Te darkness between them is contexts, which make no sense, and stay ity), for which she was awarded The Te stairs bear witness of feet, fitting the rest. A primeval pool of oblivion. with you, though you never understood M.A. Jacobsen Award, and the rights upstairs and downstairs, a teeming food Everything you struggled to squeeze why. were sold to Denmark and German of life, which has carried someone forth into life, all those things that seemed so Like photos of people torn to hide speaking countries. to this day. important, didn’t matter after all. Just their faces. A threadbare woollen jumper with became a dark backdrop of oblivion. „Hinumegin er mars“ (Beyond March) cobwebbed elbows and fraying edges Space waste. A star. Te moment and eternity. Te from 2013 is a gripping novel about a touches some part of you, and you hold But the moments. Some only a few night in the delivery room is long. Inside woman caring for her elderly mother it briefy to your chest, before you throw seconds long. Something somebody said. I sufer with the young women strug- with dementia. it away thinking of the body that wore Or did. Something that happened. Tey gling on her back. Know what it is like. it thin. twinkle away. Nobody, nothing can put Odd to be so close without sensing the Need I say more? them out. pain myself. Feel grateful that I have With time only moments remain in A matchless sky only you have the been allowed to experience it. memory. Like stars on a frost-bright binoculars for. 8 9 SELECTED WORKS: FICTION EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK RUSTUR SUM TÓRODDUR POULSEN: RUST IN THE ROLE OF VIÐUR OG VINDUR TIMBER AND WIND Tóroddur Poulsen, born in 1957 in Tórshavn, is a poet, musician and graphic artist.
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