FarLit’s selected titles

Every autumn FarLit selects Faroese books of current interest for book fairs and literary events.

Fiction
Children and young adults
Non-fiction
Download PDF of catalogue: Books from the Faroe Islands 2025

Fiction

Jógvan Isaksen: The Altarpiece

Marjun Syderbø Kjelnæs: Martha, Martha

Tim Ecott: Sigmundur and the Golden Ring

Uni Arge: Weathersickness 2

Katrin Ottarsdóttir: 7 stories

Svanna Jákupsdóttir: Cycling through

Tóroddur Poulsen: The Landscape doesn’t want you

Snæbjørn í Dali: Grøðandi sjógvur

Childrens and young adults

Elin á Rógvi: Fornt

Joan Waag Høgnesen, Hans Jacob Østerø: Messy Bob

Agnete Hentze Pichotka: The island of the lost

Rakel Helmsdal: Jump now, Eva!

Non-fiction

Kinna Poulsen: At Eye Level - on 21st century contemporary Faroese Art

Click here to read the 2025 catalogue

Books from the Faroe Islands is a selection of 13 new titles within all genres; fiction, non-fiction, crime fiction, poetry, children’s literature and YA. Additionally, there is a list of some notable awards and nominations from the past year and a list of some recently published translations of Faroese books. Finally, there is a backlist of publications from the past five years and information on which grants are available for publishers and translators, who plan to publish translations of Faroese books or translate a Faroese book.