About

Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger

Lív Maria Róadóttir Jæger, born in 1981, is a Faroese writer, poet, and Ph.D. Scholar in Creative Writing at the University of the Faroe Islands. She has been an active voice on the Faroese literary scene for over a decade, with her first published prosaic works appearing in the periodical Vencil in 2013. Since then, she has released an LP poem recording entitled Mítt navn við hondskrift, further texts for periodicals, lyrics and written the poetry collections Hvít sól (2015) and Eg skrivi á vátt pappír (2020). For Eg skrivi á vátt pappír, she received the 2020 M. A. Jacobsen’s Literature Prize from Tórshavn City Council and was nominated for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize. Her third poetry collection, BÓK, will be published by Eksil in autumn 2025.

Eg skrivi á vátt pappír is about writing to understand relationships and the relationship between your own thoughts and the thoughts of others, and about understanding yourself as a child, a young woman and a human being participating in the lives of others. The title indicates the poet’s linguistic awareness and in addition (almost correctly inviting) a wonderfully outgoing and analytically sensitive gaze that passes in shifting forms through the eight parts of the collection.

Works
2025 BÓK, Forlagið Eksil
2020 Eg skrivi á vátt pappír, Forlagið Eksil
2015 Hvít sól, Mentaunargrunnur Studentafelagsins
2014 Mítt navn við hondskrift, Steinprent

Translations
2025 I Write on Wet Paper, Francis Boutle Publishers
2021 Jeg skriver på vådt pappir, Batzer & Co
2024 J'écris sur du papier mouillé, Le Noroît