Faroese Nominée: "Abbi og eg og abbi"

Big CONGRATULATIONS to author Dánial Hoydal and illustrator Annika Øyrabø for the nomination of their children's book "Abbi og eg og abbi" for the Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize 2022. The book was published in June 2021 by BFL.

This is what the committée says in the motivation:

"With dementia as an underlying theme, this picture book is part of a trend that has dominated in recent years within Nordic children’s and youth literature. Successfully communicating about such a serious subject, which many would regard as unsuitable for children, requires a certain degree of ingenuity and warmth. With a wonderful balancing act between light and darkness, Dánial Hoydal and Annika Øyrabø master exactly this. The text and pictures merge into a whole, in which humorous rhymes and sayings and the cosy atmosphere of the grandfather’s home stand in stark contrast to the centre picture of the story, where the two no longer find any joy in their otherwise pleasant trips to the duck pond. At the end of the book we are once again down at the duck pond, but this time the symbolic sunset, together with the grandfather’s rediscovered humour, casts a warm light on the otherwise hopeless situation."

You can read more about the book and all the other Nordic nominées on norden.org