New YA Novel in Polish
The YA novel “Hon sum róði móti ælaboganum” by Rakel Helmsdal has been published in Poland by Dziwny Pomysl. The novel was originally published in 2014 by BFL, and won The West Nordic Council Children and Youth Literature Prize in 2016. The novel was also the Faroese nominée for the Nordic Council Children and Young People Literature Prize in 2017. The book is about the girl Argantael who looks like the perfect teenage girl; clever, beautiful, trendy and popular amongst her peer but she does not have what she craves the most; parents who care about her. Love, deceit and friendship are some of the main themes dealt with in the novel and it is written with inspiration from Edward Elgar’s "Enigma Variations". The novel has also been released in Denmark and Norway. Kinga Eysturland translated into Polish.
