An appreciation of Faroese language, literature and landscape

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Bárdur Oskarsson: Children's Books in Translation


A dog and a rat find a rabbit sleeping in the middle of the road, but the road is no place to sleep. The Flat Rabbit, by Bárdur Oskarsson, tells the story of two friends who breathe life into our ideas of death by giving one last hurrah for a rabbit whose life abruptly ended. Marita Thomsen's translation is one of the easiest works of Faroese literature to find in English, and is becoming one of the most popular, too.


Read two reviews of The Flat Rabbit here and here at Kirkus Reviews.




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