Day 17 (Wed): Jóanes Nielsen

Weather: fog, rain and sunshine

Walked: 4km

Today (28th June) I think I saw the author Jóanes Nielsen driving a blue van in Tórshavn. I'm pretty sure it was him. And this proves that Tórshavn is a very small town!

We had a long day (23rd June) with literature. In the morning we had our regular literature lessons and the whole day was dedicated to the author Jóanes Nielsen (see link), whose novel, Glansbílætasamlarnir ("The Scrap Collectors" or sth like that: what an unsuitable and clumsy translation in English!) we had read and were supposed to analyze. I don't know how good a job we did, but we did our best.

In the afternoon we had the author himself come for a visit. We had questions. He answered. I think I asked two questions. He didn't understand my Swedish:) I don't think we managed to be very deep with our questions... I would love to bedazzle an artist or someone whose known to be an intellectual. But so far I haven't succeeded:)

I found myself fascinated by his eyes and constant thoughtful frowning. I wanted to go over and wipe the frown away, make him not frown. I thought he was interesting.

Jóanes Nielsen signed my book, coolness!

I now have two signed books from Nordkurs: the Jóanes Nielsen book and Hallgrímur Helgason's "101 Reykjavík" from Iceland (2003, see link).

Curious facts:

- The Faroese Glansbílætasamlarnir has a typo on the cover! It's written Glansibílætasamlarnir with an extra -i- after Glans- ...

- The "New Norwegian" translation has a beautiful cover paper: the scrap pictures on the front cover are black and they reoccur on the inside of the paper cover, kind of hidden. Lovely symbolism! Lovely graphics!

Glans(i)bílætasamlarnir (Faroese, blue cover),

Glansbilledsamlerne (Danish, black cover),

Glansbildesamlarane (Norwegian/"New Norwegian",

white cover, picture of the inside of the paper cover)