FOREIGN RIGHTS CATALOGUE 2019 INTRODUCTION 2 PUBLISHERS & BOOKSHOPS 4 INTRODUCTION WINNER OF THE 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: 2014-2019 32 Since the birth of FarLit in 2012 one of the production grants, recently sold works, and main activity is to attend book fairs as they are artist residencies. AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS 36 an excellent platform for introducing Faroese literature. Thus, we attend the London Book Fair Enjoy the read! in a joint stand with our NordLit partners, and BOOKS WITH THE FAROE ISLANDS AS TOPIC & LOCATION 38 attend Gothenburg and Franfurt Book Fairs with our own stand. Kind regards, ARTIST RESIDENCIES 39 This catalogue presents a wide range of contemporary works and authors selected CONTENT by a literary committée, and a list of book Urd Johannesen NORDIC TRANSLATION GRANT 40 publications the last five years. Furthermore, Literary Coordinator other relevant information on translation and FAROESE BOOK FESTIVAL 42 MY NOTES 43 NORDIC ECOLABEL 541 705 PUBLISHERS BOOKSHOPS WINNER OF THE CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING Bókadeild Føroya Lærarafelags Nám Pedda við Steingøta 9 Hoyvíksvegur 72 FO-100 Tórshavn FO-100 Tórshavn www.bfl.fo www.nam.fo NOVEL COMPETITION HNJ HNJ is the old and cosy book- Faroese author Oddfríður Marni Rasmussen won the FICTION, NON-FICTION ACADEMIC PUBLISHING shop right in the center of & POETRY Fróðskapur - Tórshavn with a great book Bookshop Association’s novel competion for his novel “Ikki Sprotin Faroe University Press selection and a café as part of Hornavegur 12 Fróðskaparsetur Føroya the shop. fyrr enn tá” (Not Until Then). The committée members, FO-350 Vestmanna J.C. Svabos gøta 14 Buy books online: who evaluated all the 19 manuscripts that were handed www.sprotin.fo FO-100 Tórshavn www.bokhandil.fo www.setur.fo/frodskapur in, had a difficult task ahead but they were not in doubt Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins whom to choose as the winner. www.ms.fo ART BOOKS Steinprent Stiðin Skálatrøð 16 In their motivation they say: “With this new novel Faroese literature Hornavegur 16 FO-100 Tórshavn welcomes a new voice. It is a convincing novel written by a convincing FO-100 Tórshavn www.steinprent.com RIT & RÁK author about an important subject which needs to be expressed. Email: [email protected] Rit & Rák Bookshop is located The story is about losing a spouse to brain cancer and it’s the story of Listasavn Føroya in the shopping centre SMS the one left behind which is so skillfully described. Not only is this a Forlagið Eksil Gundadalsvegur 9 in Torshavn and offers a frightening and heartfelt story, it is equally important to have such a Kronprinsessgade 37, 1.tv. FO-100 Tórshavn comprehensive selection of story in Faroese language. The story has all the right ingredients and 1306 København K www.art.fo Faroese literature in translation. they all work well together to make up a fully composed novel which www.forlagideksil.blogspot.com Buy books online: leaves you with a wish to read it again. The story is exceptionally moving, Gramar www.ritograk.fo Bergsvegur 4 & 6 shocking, sad, honest, realistic, optimistic and relevant. FO-100 Tórshavn The winner of the competition was author www.gramar.fo The prize money was 100,000 DKK and the winner also got a publishing deal with Sprotin. Oddfríður Marni Rasmussen 4 5 SELECTED WORKS: NOVEL EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK He has been awarded the Faroese national M.A. Jacobsen’s Award for fiction twice, and last year he won the Faroese Book Shop Association’s novel competition with the novel “Ikki fyrr enn tá” (Not Until Then). In the motivation NOT UNTIL THEN the Committée says: “With this new novel Faroese literature welcomes Translated by Marita Thomsen so the doctors could see precisely where Back and forth between departments a new voice. It is a convincing novel the growth was and how big it was and doctors, between doctors and written by a convincing author about 4. and, not least, what the prospects were. departments. Flights to Denmark for an important subject which needs Not until all the tests were taken could The future. further tests at the central hospital in to be expressed”. The story is about they see for certain that there was a “Lie still. Don’t speak,” said a Copenhagen for shorter and longer losing a spouse to brain cancer, and it’s tumour in the brain. Not until then loudspeaker. periods of time, and time still hadn’t the story of the one left behind which did Elsa really start changing. Then All the tests were drawn-out. It felt come. Just illness. is so skillfully described. Not only is there was proof beyond refute. like abuse, violent abuse. Attacks. Time And no time. this a frightening and heartfelt story, Not until then. became alien. Neither Elsa nor I could Time grew more and more alien. it is equally important to have such a Her body was strapped to a stretcher recognise time. It always passed too It had not fixed beat. Sprinted when story in Faroese language. The story slowly sliding into the scanner. Elsa quickly, and though we tried to stretch it felt like it, crawled when it felt like has all the right ingredients and they breathed heavily. The only audible it, use it sparingly, it ran away from us it, and all we could do was follow the all work well together to make up a sounds came from the motor conveying faster than we knew how to run. time we had at any given time. ODDFRÍÐUR MARNI RASMUSSEN: fully composed novel which leaves you the stretcher into the scanner and We had a barrage of terms thrown in One thing was that we didn’t with a wish to read it again. The story Elsa’s slow breathing. The sterile our faces, as if the words were a Sunday manage to keep up with time, but in is exceptionally moving, shocking, hospital smell reeked of death rather dinner shopping list. Elsa sat beside me the wake of time came all these strange sad, honest, realistic, optimistic and than life. A pungent emanation from holding my hand. I could see it in her words. IKKI FYRR relevant. The novel was published 22 warm equipment and patient fluids face, I could visualize it, and I could Metastases, February 2019 by Sprotin. assaulting the nostrils. Sometimes my see that she didn’t understand a word glia, thoughts skipped from the sound of the of what was being said, and I tried meninges, scanner to the hospital stench. It felt as to write down all the words, so that I oligodendroglioma, if all my senses had been separated and could look them up online when we got glioplastoma multiforme, ENN TÁ now existed independently. home. The uncomprehending expression fourth grade, Oddfríður Marni Rasmussen (1969) grew up in the village of Title: Ikki fyrr enn tá “Where are you?” on Elsa’s face showed obvious signs of Prednisolone, Sandur on Sandoy, the Faroe Islands. He is a primary school Pages: 286 “I’m here, love.” stress and bewilderment. A blonde lock adrenal gland cortex, teacher. He has authored 19 poetry collections, of which the Publisher: Sprotin “Where?” caressed her cheek. Her eyes looked chemotherapy, first was published in 1994 and one is being published this Year of publication: “Here,” I said turning away from the empty. Her mouth crimped. The teeth neurone, year. Between 1998 and 2000, he attended “Forfatterskolen”, 2019 apparatus that had eaten Elsa in order dry behind the lips. And a dark blush astrocytomas. English sample to shine through her body and find the circled both eyes. Like a shopping list, so long. The a Writers’ Academy in Copenhagen. Oddfríður Marni available tumour and then spit her out again Almost crimson. words frothed in the mouth every time Rasmussen is also one of two editors of the contemporary like a prune pit. The machine was I had to say them. These were all words literary periodical “Vencil”. supposed to take images of the tumour, A battery of tests followed. Scanners. I couldn’t relate to human beings, and 6 7 SELECTED WORKS: FICTION EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK Carl Jóhan Jensen has been awarded have left this place. Not been away all But then there is that other thing, the Faroese M.A. Jacobsen’s Award these years. Or for that matter I could whether I dare to know what the heart in literature three times, and is a five as easily be staring at a corpse in that wants to tell me now, or if my brain time nominee for the prestigious windowpane. That is how clear the shies too far from the silence inside. Nordic Council Literature Prize, most full frontal of myself is, cheek resting From all the things unsaid by the others recently in 2016 for his novel “Eg síggi SÆREIN FUGLABÓK AV GLOYMSKU on a spray of black hair. The eyes are also resting here tonight. At the hotel. teg betur í myrkri” (2014). Jensen’s grey, almost like polished mirrors, And there is no need to tell you, work has appeared in literary journals Translated by Marita Thomsen under long and, towards the nose returned to this shrouded town that the and anthologies in Denmark, Norway, 1. bridge, fairly bushy brows. The face thing with me is, firstly, I never found Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and Sweat clings to my body.