The following is a post by Eric lost during the server crash, which I've found in the Google cache:
Eric said:There exists a thread here about one Faroese author, He?in Br? (1901-1987), whose real name was the very Danish-sounding Hans Jacob Jacobsen. People may also have heard of William Heinesen (1900-1991) who actually wrote in Danish:
William Heinesen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dedalus Books Sample Chapters - William Heinesen
But what about all the rest? This is surely another adventure for a translator into English, someone who already knows, for instance, Icelandic, which is similar, or the colonial language Danish. Because the Faroes are still a Danish colony to this day (i.e. mid-December 2008).
We could start with the English-language Wikipedia article:
Faroese literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It's what the Wikipedia terms a "stub", but it does give the names of several authors. And a book:
THREE FAROESE NOVELISTS. An appreciation of Jorgen-Frantz Jacobsen, William Heinesen, and Heoin Bru by Hedin Bronner - Used Books - from BUCKS COUNTY BOOKSHOP and Biblio.com
And a Nordic Council's Literature Prizewinner:
R?i Patursson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The English-language Wikipedia is very reticent about contemporary Faroese authors, who might write things that would interest us. But here is a German article about the postmodernist poet T?roddur Poulsen (born 1957):
T?roddur Poulsen ? Wikipedia
There are evidently three books of Faroese poetry in German which include his poems.
I shall tell you more names when I have read "Windvlinders" Po?zie van de Faer?er", translated into Dutch by Roald van Elswijk at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, in the Wilde Aardbeien series, Groningen, Netherlands, 2008. This is a 250-page parallel text book of contemporary poetry by eight Faroese poets.