7 short stories that straddle the border between the realistic and the grotesque. About people who are stuck in various ways in situations and relationships that they want to get out of – stuck situations where violent actions – fatal to both […]
Summarið varar ikki alt árið longur (Summer does not last all year any more) is a independent sequel to The Girl in the World, Ottarsdóttir’s debut novel from 2020. The story takes place in Tórshavn in the 1970’s. The pensive “girl in […]
Gentan í verðini (The Girl in The World) is a novel about a girl who goes to visit her grandparents during the summer holiday in a small town in the Faroe Islands. The grandparent’s household includes the rather eccentric aunt who has […]
43 bagatellir (43 Bagatelles) is a collection of short stories, each of them excactly 300 words + a 1 word title – all in all 12,943 words – which according to the book’s table of contents (maybe) deal with a variety of […]
Aftanáðrenn is a collection of 13 short stories, a series of oddly fascinating psychological thrillers, different from anything else written in Faroese. The title – Aftanáðrenn – is a somewhat untranslateable, constructed word, a contatenation of the Faroese adverbs “aftaná” (after) and […]
Messa fyri einum filmi (Requiem For a Film) is Katrin Ottarsdóttir’s second poetry collection. Published 2015 by Mentunargrunnur Studentafelagsins. 75 pages.
** Awarded the Faroese Literature Prize (Bókmentavirðisløn M.A. Jacobsens) 2013 ** Katrin Ottarsdóttir’s critically acclaimed poetry debut Eru koparrør í himmiríki was published in 2012. The collection broke ground in Faroese literature. It is the first book of confessional poetry in Faroese […]
