Sólrún Michelsen

Sólrún Michelsen (born Midjord in Tórshavn in 1948), grew up in Argir, is a Faroese writer and poet. She received the Barnamentanarheiðursløn Tórshavnar býráðs (Tórshavn Council's Children's Book Prize) in 2002 and the Faroese Literature Prize in 2008. In 2004 she was nominated for the West Nordic Council's Children and Youth Literature Prize for the poem collection Loppugras. She is married to the Faroese politician and business man Poul Michelsen, the leader of Framsókn (Progress).

Bibliography

In 1994 she published her debut book which she named Argjafrensar, people who come from Argir (now a part of Tórshavn) are often as a joke referred to as Argjafrensar, which means male cats from Argir. Her parents moved to Argir, her father came from the small village Hov on Suðuroy and her mother came from Norðskáli on Eysturoy. Since then she has written and published various genres both as books and published in ltererary magazines i.e. Mín jólabók (My Christmas Book), which is a family book, published every year one month before Christmas, and in Birting and Vencil. Since 2008 Sólrún has worked full-time as a writer.^[1] Sólrún has written poems, short stories, novels and fantasy stories, she has written for children, youth and adults. Since 2006 she has mostly been writing for adults.^[2]

Literature for children and youth

1994 Argjafrensar - children's book, 146 pages^[3]^[4]
1996 Útiløgukattar (youth novel), 123 pages^[5]
2003 Loppugras (poems for children)
2006 Óvitar - ghost story, published in a youth book about ghosts: Spøkilsið sum flenti (The laughing ghost)
2013 Torkils Døtur (children's book)

Fantasy

1999 Hin útvaldi (fantasy)
2002 Geislasteinar (fantasy

Short Stories

1995 Øðrvísi stuttsøga - published in Birting
2000 Maya (novelle) - published in Birting
2002 Angi av deyða published in Birting
2004 Maðurin úr Grauballe - published in Birting
2006 Summi renna í stuttum brókum - published in Vencil 1
2007 Gjøgnum skygnið - published in Vencil 3
2009 Hin blái eingilin - published in Vencil 6
2011 Rottan (collection with short stories)

Novels

2007 Tema við slankum
2013 Hinumegin er mars

Poems

1998 Mítt gamla land - udgivet i det litterære magasin Birting
2000 Oyggjarnar (Cantate)
2003 Við vindeygað - Birting
2009 Kantatusálmur -published in Vencil 7
2009 Í opnu hurðini (collection with poems)

Published in Mín jólabók and Vencil

1992 Jól hjá Onnu og Jákupi – Published in Mín jólabók (My Christmas Book)
1997 Emma – Published in Mín jólabók
1998 Tann fyrsta flykran and Eg kenni eina vættur - published in Mín jólabók
1999 Barnajól og Magga - published in Mín jólabók
2000 Gásasteggin, Postboð - published in Mín jólabók
2001 Fuglakongurin og Hinumegin vindeyga published in Mín jólabók
2003 Tann fyrsta flykran fall í dag og Ein dag eg lá á bønum - published in Mín jólabók
2005 Sápubløðran published in Mín jólabók
2006 Summi renna í stuttum brókum published in Vencil 1
2007 Jólagávan published in Mín jólabók

In Danish Translation

2009 At danse med virkeligheden (Danish translation of Tema við slankum, translated by Kirsten Brix)

In English Translation

2011 Some people run in shorts (Translation of the short story Summi renna í stuttum brókum) published in Vencil Anthologi of Contemporary Faroese Literature.
2014 The Rat (Translation of the short story Rottan) published in Pankmagazine.com

In German Translation

2013 Der blaue Engel (German translation of the short story Hin blái eingilin published in the collection "Mord unterm Nordlicht" s. 85-88)^[6]
2014 Manche laufen in kurzen Hosen (German translation of the short story Summi renna í stuttum brókum published in the collection Narrenflieger)
2015 "Tanz auf den Klippen" (German translation of "Tema við slankum", Inga Meincke translated.)

Honour

2002 Barnamentanarheiðursløn Tórshavnar býráðs^[7]
2004 Nominated West Nordic Council's Children and Youth Literature Prize for Loppugras
2008 Faroese Literature Prize (Mentanarvirðisløn M. A. Jacobsens)
2015 Nominated the Nordic Council's Literature Prize