New in Hungary
Ikki fyrr enn tá - the award winning novel by Oddfríður Marni Rasmussen - has just been published in Hungary by Polar Egyesület with the title Addig nem.
The novel won first prize in a novel competition in 2018 and was published by Sprotin in 2019, and the following year it was the Faroese nominee for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Ikki fyrr enn tá has been published in Denmark and Norway. The novel is a moving, sad, honest and yet optimistic story about a man losing his spouse to brain cancer. Kata Veress has translated the novel from Faroese to Hungarian.
Here is a short film about the novel and the author:
