Rakel Helmsdal

Who is Rakel Helmsdal?

Rakel Helmsdal is a Faroese writer. For a 5-year peroid she lived in France where she wrote four of her books. She has been teaching in creative writing and drama. She has also arranged theatre for youth. She has been writing a series of books about the little and the big "skrímsl" together with Icelandic Áslaug Jónsdóttir and Swedish Kalle Güettler. Their books have been translated into other Nordic languages. Her first book: Tey kalla meg bara Hugo, has been translated into Norwegian. The books have been published in the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Sweden, France, Finland, Spain and Norway. Helmsdal has created her own marionett-theatre, which she calls Karavella Marionett-Theatre. She was president for the Faroese writer's association Rithøvundafelag Føroya from 2009 to 2011. Her mother is the Faroese poet Guðrið Helmsdal.