Name: Sólrún Michelsen
Born: 1948, Tórshavn.
Selected work: Sára Malena (2023)
Awards and nominations:
Faroese Children’s Literature Award (2002)
Mentanarvirðisløn M.A. Jacobsens in fiction (2008)
Nominated for the West Nordic Children’s Literature Award (2004) Nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize for Hinumegin er mars (2015)

Sólrún Michelsen (1948) made her debut in 1994 with a short story collection for children, and has published generously since for children and adults in different genres. She has won several Faroese awards and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2015. Sólrún’s books have been published in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Ethiopia and the UK. Sára Malena is her latest novel.

In 2004 Sólrún published her first book for adults, Tema við slankum, for which she was awarded the Faroese M.A. Jacobsen Literary Award. Her novel Hinumegin er mars was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2015. In 2016 Sólrún published a poetry collection Ein farri av fráferð and in 2017 one of her short stories Some People Run in Shorts was selected for the Nordic anthology The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat edited by Icelandic poet Sjón and published by Pushkin Press. The same story was also printed in the new literary magazine Boundless for its launch on 4 December 2017. Ein táttur er silvur published in 2019 is Sólrún’s first novel in a family saga trilogy. The second novel in the series, Ein annar er gull was published in 2020, and the third and final novel Fáur fær tráðin heilt slættan was published in 2021.

Works:
2023 Sára Malena, novel
2022 Nornan spinnur, novel (English sample available)
2021 Fáur fær tráðin heilt slættan, novel (Nornan spinnur 3)
2020 Ein annar er gull, novel (Nornan spinnur 2)
2019 Ein táttur er silvur, novel (Nornan spinnur 1)
2017 Morgunfrúa, short stories
2016 Ein farri av fráferð, poetry
2013 Hinumegin er mars, novel
2013 Torkils døtur, children's book
2011 Rottan, short stories
2009 Í opnu hurðini, poetry
2008 Loppugras, children's poetry
2007 Tema við slankum, novel
2002 Geislasteinar, Fantasy
1999 Hin útvaldi, Fantasy
1996 Útiløgukattar, YA novel
1994 Argjafrensar, short stories

Translations:
2024 On the other side is March. HoHe Publisher (ET)
2023 On the other side is March. Francis Boutle (UK)
2017 Sprinkeljenta. Orkana (NO)
2017 På den andre sida er mars. Fonna Forlag (NO)
2017 På den anden side er marts. Torgard (DK)
2015 Tanz auf den Klippen. Unionsverlag (DE)
2013 “Der Blaue Engel” in Mord unterm Nordlicht – Kriminalerzählungen aus Skandinavien. DTV (DE)
2009 At danse med virkeligheden. Torgard (DK)