Foreign Rights Catalogue 2017 Introduction

FOREIGN RIGHTS CATALOGUE 2017 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. FO-100 Tórshavn www.forlagideksil.blogspot.com FO-100 Tórshavn www.bfl.fo www.steinprent.com 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 production grants, recently sold works, artist FO-350 Vestmanna www.nam.fo www.art.fo main activity is to attend book fairs as they are residencies, the Faroese Book Festival, and www.sprotin.fo an excellent platform for introducing Faroese Summer Institute 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 www.setur.fo/frodskapur contemporary works and authors selected Stiðin by a literary committée, and a list of book Hornavegur 16 publications from 2011 to 2016. Furthermore, Urd Johannesen FO-100 Tórshavn other relevant information on translation and 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 protagonist is called Benedikt 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 Tórshavn in 1957, is one of the most 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 original and provocative writers on the Faroese literary scene been awarded The M.A. cast another sidelong glance down behind him. other dark-blue tiles laid aslant, a little Jacobsen Award in 1989, 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 2006 and 2015, and is positioned beneath the gate, motionless The space inside had an atmosphere borders, there was a wide stretch of blue- poetry, novels and essays. His works have been translated and 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 cliffs, and seen from a distance. Netherlands, Germany and the USA. Literary Prize. tripod was no-where to be seen. unruffled beaches. Hard to tell where 6 7 SELECTED WORKS: FICTION EXTRACT FROM THE BOOK kmd-foto MARJUN S KJELNÆS: ÓENDALIGA VERA (leon) actually look for it, for me that The Postman Now I am nothing, not would have meant making a Marjun S. Kjelnæs, born 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 YA literature, Kjelnæs long time. The way one tends to love no clue about. I don’t even guess, just have always paid more attention to is also an author of a number of 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 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. Of course a passage from rúm” (Empty rooms) in 2014, which with my childhood feelings, I sense him man whether he conquers or renounces scripture would pop into my head right garnered many positive remarks from all the way back to before I had words the entire world, and whether he looses now: “… Now I know in part; then audience and critics alike. She is very to express what I felt. Later I tried both or keeps his soul? None. So I have let I shall know fully, even as I am fully versatile and productive, and during not to be like him and to be like him. go of both, and that is how come I known.” Leon the first still drones on the last two years she has written But I failed miserably at both tests, don’t hang on to anything, worldly or like voice-over to my thoughts. The a film manuscript, lyrics for singer- shamed and failed myself and others. spiritual. I no longer make any efforts, scripture has words for every occasion song writer Eivør, published a poetry Now I am nothing, not really. I neither to change anything, nor come to and every feeling, I also learnt that collection “Opna” and in July this year am a postman, who carries messages terms with anything. Everything that early on: “Your word is a lamp for “Óendaliga vera” - her first novel for to people. I take unopened letters and I thought mattered slipped through my my feet, a light on my path.” Well, adults - was published for which parcels to them, without knowing what fingers.

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